"どのテーブルですか？"
Translation:Which table is it?
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どのテーブルですか
【どの】->【テーブル】【です】【か】
The easiest translation is "which table is it?" but if you mean "which is the table [you're referring to]?" like when you're asking someone which table is the correct table then that's acceptable.
Otherwise, it's "which table is it?" as どの is referring to テーブル only and not anything else.
if you are a waiter and ask your friends, which table to order earlier is very suitable if using:"どのテーブルですか？"
No, because どっち (not どち) acts the same way as どれ except it usually means "which (of two choices)", so you can say どっちのテーブル (just like どれのテーブル, which becomes shortened to どのテーブル). It is more casual than どれ though.
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So says Wikipedia (entry どちら):
- The hiragana spelling (どちら) is preferred to the kanji spelling (何方), which is rarely used.
- This translates to "which," but for cases when there are two alternatives. If there are three or more, どれ (dore) is preferred.
- This is a polite word. The casual equivalent is どっち (dotchi).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%A9%E3%81%A1%E3%82%89#Usage_notes
Well, Duo hasn't taught us many other verbs yet, and です is the equivalent to "is/am/are"; how often do you see them in basic English sentences?
I thought the desu was just to make the sentence more formal... Am I missing something here?
Take this with a grain of salt, as im a learner and in no way fluent, but from what i can tell it can be used for both of those things ("is/am etc" AND politeness). If i remember correctly, its kind of inherently polite because its the polite form of だ. I hope this helps, and if im wrong please correct me! :)
"Whose" would be だれの, and the subject is "this", so the sentence would be これはだれのテーブルですか？
Can someone give me an example of a context this could be used in? I don't think I get the purpose of this sentence
A man holds a gun to your head and says "Tell me how to say 'Which table is it?' in Japanese, or I'll blow ya brains out, capiche?!"
Your friend is moving house and you've offered to help. When you arrive, they ask you to help move a table out of the truck. They own several tables.
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You're at an event with assigned seating. Your group is at table five. You have to find the correct table.
It is wrong because where is the table is テーブルはどこですか (Taberu wa doko desu ka). Doko means where but kono means which. Hope this helps!
どの is "Which (noun)"? When selecting an item from a group of other items. It is a contraction of the pronoun どれ "which one" and the linking particle の
どのテーブル "Which table?"
～んな words refer to an attribute/type
こんなテーブル "A table like this"
そんなテーブル "a table like that"
どんなテーブル "What kind of table?"
I don't undertand why is not "this is a table?" Where is "which" in this phare? There are not any "Nani"... :(
"nani" means "what", and there is no "this" in the sentence either.
どの～ means "which ～" where the ～ has to be a noun/noun phrase.
No, you can't use は and mark something that is unknown as the topic.
どこ also means "where"
どれ would be used for "which one" and marked with が since it is new information
どれがテーブルですか
