German speakers! what does "ich habe meine freunde getroffen"?

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Retarded Rick

Bauer is the correct here
I have met my friends
it needs past tense and it needs to be plural

campesino

I have met my friends.

@engineer: Freunde is plural. But else ok
@eat_choc...: Freunde is masculine. feminin would be Freundinnen

alex

it means that you have met up with your friends, or hung out with them

mystique1983

i have met my friends.
it is plural because freunde is more than one.
just one would be freund

Alwin E

"I met my friends",

but in "World of Warcraft" it may also mean

"I've hit my friends".

"treffen" in German can mean "meet" as well as "hit".

Margarethe H

''I have met my friends''

Karl der Frei

I met my friends

thomasc93

I met up with my friends.*
OR
I have met up with my friends.

die Freunde is also used for mixed gender groups of friends.
(not just for a group of male friends)

*This translation is only used when having a verbal conversation. To say this in writing, you would say "Ich traf meine Freunde"

EDIT: I dont know why you all are thumbs downing my answer. I am a native swiss speaker and I know what I'm talking about. Some of the thumbs down answers are also right. I dont know about Northerngermany, but in Southerngermany and throughout the german speaking part of switzerland, "Ich hab' meine Freunde getroffen" means I have met my friends and I met my friends (when used conversationally).(you never know; could be a northern german dialect difference) When not used conversationally you should use the Indicative Imperfect past tense to say "I met my friends" which is: ich traf meine Freunde. so whoever is thumbsdowning our answers, either all of my german speaking family and all of my native german speaking friends are wrong, or you are.

Sandy B

I met with my friend

shortymomma2000

I met my friend

LockG

i met my friend or i have met my friend

who the hellis thumbing everyone down ....we are all right yet we are being thumbed down 10 or 11 times...pure bull

Offizier J.E.

Literally translated: "I have my friends met." But translated from German to English it means I have met my friends.

Treffen meaning to meet up, but getroffen is the past participle of it. Past participles usually begin with a "ge" at the beginning, unless it's somethin like "bekommen."

Treffen - Meet
getrOffen - have MET

kinda like in:
Sprechen - to speak
gesprOchen. have SPOKEN.

Viel spaÃŸ viel GlÃ¼ck!

EDIT: Yea apparently you aren't the only one. I get a thumbs down for giving a correct answer myself, and explaining a little bit to help out... I mean, are there germans on here becoming jealous that we can speak german or somethin'?

military_mummy

engineer is right!

Dial

In German, it is literally translated to: "I have taken my friends" according to the Google Translater Tool, but it roughly means, "I have found my friends." Use it to translate phrases from almost any language to English and back.

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