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Is it grammatically correct to say "er habe"?
I'm reading a book in German and came across the following sentence:
"Am nächsten Tag sagte Vater, es tue ihm Leid, dass er mich geschlagen habe, er habe das nicht gewollt."
The word "habe" caught my attention, because I thought it should have been "hat". I don't remember ever seeing "er" and "habe" being listed together in any word conjugation list that I've studied, but I'm wondering if I'm wrong and maybe I missed something.
So is it grammatically correct to say "er habe" or does the book have a typo? Does writing "habe" in that sentence give it a different meaning than if the word "hat" had been written instead?
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For indirect speech the subjunctive mood is used. But many native speakers use just 'er hat' instead of 'er habe', especially in spoken German. So your example is perfectly ok! ;)
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Subjunctive/KonjunktivI.html
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Thanks for pointing that out, Marco! I didn't even notice that.
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... The same goes for "es tue ihm *leid". (see Alex answer)
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الإنجليزية, الألمانية, الروسية, الأوكرانية
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