Sentence examples of "only child" in English
"Do you have any siblings?" "No, I'm an only child."
"Hast du Geschwister?" "Nein. ich bin ein Einzelkind."
If labor pains would hurt so much as people say, everyone would only have one child!
Wenn die Wehen so schmerzhaft wären, wie die Leute immer sagen, hätte jeder nur ein Kind!
There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
In der Welt gibt es nur ein hübsches Kind und jede Mutter hat es.
That child is only four, but he can already count to 100.
Dieses Kind ist erst vier Jahre alt, aber kann schon bis hundert zählen.
Mary told the child to mind his father.
Mary forderte das Kind auf, dass es auf seinen Vater hören solle.
The primates include not only the apes, but also man.
Zu den Primaten gehören nicht nur die Affen, sondern auch der Mensch.
I used to go fishing in the river when I was a child.
Als Kind ging ich oft zum Angeln an den Fluss.
Nowadays parents treat their children more as equals than they used to and the child is given more freedom to make his or her own decisions in life.
Heutzutage behandeln Eltern ihre Kinder stärker als Gleichgestellte als früher und ein Kind erhält mehr Freiheiten, seine eigenen Entscheidungen zu treffen.
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