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Use fehlt for fehlen
The subject of the sentence is 'das Geld'. That is singular and thus is the verb. 'Vielen Familien' is the Dativ object of this sentence.
You likely are confused by the word order which is quite ...
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Use fehlt for fehlen
There is indeed something odd about the verb fehlen. As has already been pointed out in the other answers, the thing that is missing appears as the nominative subject with this verb, and there's no ...
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Use fehlt for fehlen
It's fehlt because the subject is das Geld, which is singular.
Vielen Familien is the dative object tells who has to bear the result of the action. Who benefits from it or who has to deal with its ...
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