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"Our kitchen is big."
Translation:うちの台所は大きいです。
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I understand our need of adding "家の" to "だいどころ" so it is more exact too "our kitchen", even "家の" doesnt really make that meaning, but "the house kitchen" literally.
It would sound more natural in japanese just saying "だいどころ" and get the extra information by context - which is one of the most important things to understand japanese.
As spanish, japanese doesnt usually especify the subject, you get it due to context. In these cases happens the same, you get the subject or these kind of information not by saying it, but context.
In this example うち doesn't mean "house", but "we". Duolingo is bringing some weird words in here, because as far as I know, うち for "me" or "we" is more of a slang word and mostly used by girls.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but even my dictionary doesn't know this.
Yes, as far as standard japanese goes? UCHI is usually used to mean 'one's in group' when refering to people
The うち here comes from the kanji 内 (literally means "inside"). As other commentors have noted, it's a more informal, almost slang thing, and is used more for one's in-group rather than a general sort of "us"
I often see 家 translated as "my home" or "our home", referring to the speaker's house specifically. So I took this to literally be translated as "our home's kitchen" but just "our kitchen" sounds more natural in English.
Pienso lo mismo. Creo que uchi se refiere a 'casa' en el sentido de 'hogar', por ende al decir うちのだいどころ Se refiere a nuestra cocina, la cocina de nuestro hogar...
The worst part is how inconsistent it is. I had a couple sentences before this which had an "Our [subject] is..." structure that neither offered nor required a possessive pronoun, but now this one rates the same as a mistake.
台所【だい・どころ】
大きい【おおきい】
more about うち as a concept here:
How come the translation for wide/spacious 広い (ひろい) isn't the one used here? Can it not be applied to rooms?
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I agree. To me, using 広い would be more natural. 大きい conjures up images of the ceiling being two stories tall, in addition to the room being wide...
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I think so, too. Same with the "Our family is big." It would be more natural to use 多い than 大きい
Two guys from different companies sit together for lunch.
A: うちの上司 [ superiors ] は毎日みんなをおこる [ scolds / ing ] ですよ
B: そうですか、たいへんですよね
Note the context of the うち
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うちの台所が大きいです。Not accepted but I'm not clear why. Couldn't it be the response to 誰の台所が大きいの？
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It seems so. The IMDb has a page for a 2016 comedy film titled Watashitachi no haa haa:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4181938/
Note that the meanings of "watashitachi" and "uchi" are a bit different.
"Watashitachi" can be translated as "we" or "us". It would refer to a group of people of which you are a member. For example, the IMDb says that the film is about a group of four female high school students who like the same rock band.
"Uchi", on the other hand, can be translated as "house", "one's house", "one's home", "one's family", "one's household".
If you are talking about "our kitchen" to mean "the kitchen belonging to our household", "uchi no" would be a better fit.
Did I type something wrong? I typed, "家の台所は大きいです" and it marked it wrong. Yes, I could use the word match, but I am trying to use Duo to practice learning the Japanese IME.
The うち here is a pronoun that actually comes from the kanji 内 (literally means "inside", but is used as a pronoun here for we/our) rather than 家. As other commentors have noted, it's a more informal, almost slang thing, so I'm not sure why duo has chosen to include it. Also, I'm given to understand that the Japanese people usually type in hiragana when they want to use the word as a pronoun, and reserve the kanji for when they actually want to mean "inside".
when im typing in japanese i couldnt get the kanji for : おきい ．does anyone know why this is ? 教えてください、お願いします！
Does うち have to be connected to something like うちのだいどころ or can it stand by itself like うちは
Is "daitogoro" japanese for Kitchen? Because Google says otherwise and when I type with laptop keyboard, I don't get any recognizable prompts.
You have some typos; should be daidokoro. I have heard that キッチン is also used. Apparently English borrowings for names of things are to Japanese as French ones are to English. salon - living room - リビングルーム. They sound more elegant and special.
I don't get the 大きい/小さい thing. What is the difference between that and 大/小 only?
大 and 小 are the kanji for the concepts big and small. Try looking them up in jisho and you will see the different ways they can be read (pronounced) and different words that are formed using them. 大きい and 小さい use those kanji to form the adjectives for big and small. A lot of adjectives end in い . To learn more, read up on い adjectives vs. な adjectives.
They're not suffixes; they're part of the term (even though they're not written with kanji, they are still considered part of the term) =)
If they're going to introduce something new, they should at least make sure the hints for that meaning are there and correct. Bleh. 90% of the language Ive seen comes from Duo so far, and never seen uchi before.
