Please save me

>>330376
I don't understand German.

>>330377
I cry

>>330376
Wir kaufen Sie Blumen.

My german is a bit rusty but you you want to say "We're buying her flowers? right?

>>330440
*ihr, not Sie

>>330475
isn't ihr possessive? you're buying flowers FOR her not buying her (belongs to her) flowers

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>>330491
No, then it would be "ihre Blumen".

In English, there is no distinction between doing something *to her* and doing something *for* her. In German, there is a difference.

I love her = I ich liebe sie.
I give her a present = Ich gebe ihr ein Geschenk.

>>330493
viele danke

>>330493
To use linguistics terms, German still has the Accusative and Dative cases, whereas English combined them into the Objective case.

Dative is used mostly when the subject (nominative) is verbing a direct object (accusative) for the benefit of an indirect object (dative), for example giving a thing to someone. English, by contrast, uses the objective case for both objects, and distinguishes them by word order: "I gave him it".

>>330520
And therein lies my confusion, thanks for the clarification