"Qual é o dormitório?"

Translation: Which dormitory is it?

[gilpaiz]

my answer, "which one is the bedroom?", was graded incorrect. However, I understood the question as if it was asking to clarify which one was the bedroom (or dormitory) out of other rooms. Hopefully I make sense... :)

[margaritaguese]

they should accept many different answers

[TiagoMoita_PT]

Perhaps it was marked incorrect because "dormitório" is not "bedroom", and not because of your phrase construction...?

[desgua]

I think "bedroom" is a perfectly acceptable translation for "dormitório" or "quarto".

[TiagoMoita_PT]

Depends on how precise you want to be. For learning purposes, I think you should be as much as you can. "Dormitory is a specific type of bedroom, destined for a bunch of people, as in a boarding school, a barrack or something like that.

[vivalahumanidad]

Does this sentence really mean "Which dormitory is it?" Shouldn't it rather be "Which one is the dormitory?" I am a bit unsure how these two would be expressed and whether the given answer is correct.

[TiagoMoita_PT]

It's the same translation in Portuguese for both those sentences.

[helenaro]

One more for "Which one is the bedroom". It sounds like a correct translation of the Portuguese sentence.

[pgomes]

Bad exercise. They should use a clearer, less open to interpretation sentence.

[ell-no]

How can "What is the dormitory" be right? If you want to know what a dormitory is, you write "What is a dormitory"?