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- "Do you have luggage?"
"Do you have luggage?"
Translation:荷物はありますか？
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"Is there any luggage?" Would be a more direct translation, out of context.
They both work, but using -が implies having rather than -は which is being.
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Why is にもつをもっていますか？ not acceptable?
(In the same vein that けいたい電話をもっていますか？, or something quite similar to that, is accepted in another exercise for 'Do you have a cellphone'?)
I'm not sure but I think "is there any luggage" would be a more literal translation.
荷物があるの？not accepted, even though this question is 3 years old, and every other similar exercise in this lesson accepts the same pattern...
No because を is for verbs, which is ot present. It should be が instead of は.
を is the direct object possible. Luggage is not a direct object here as nothing is happening to it. が Is for subjects and は is for topics (oftentimes the subject in English)
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Would a better sentence for this translation be: あなたは荷物をもってありますか? Or would it end with something different? あるか maybe?
No, and for a few reasons. Firstly, there would really be no need for あなた、since questions are usually assumed to be about the person you're talking to. Secondly, if you're trying to use the verb 持つ、while that verb would work here, that is not quite how you conjugate into the て form. It is always ている or ています、never てあります。
「荷物を持っていますか」 would work, and I believe the same as 「荷物を持っているか」、「荷物を持っているの？」、「荷物を持っている？」、 and I believe「荷物はある？」
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Thanks for the correction, haven't seen ある even used with a て form verb so I don't know why I thought that... What would you say is the difference between ている and ています? Is it only the politeness?
Yes, that would be the only difference, the ます form for anything is also known as the polite form, so really it's only formality and politeness.
