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"Do you have a cell phone?"
Translation:携帯電話は持っていますか?
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the answer is "は" on the question.
I've been wanting to know how to ask "do you have a microphone" online... and one time i said
"マイクを待っていますか?" and the person understood and answered,
but I've also heard a Japanese person ask another person
"マイクがある?"
was just wondering what the most natural way to ask this question is (and if it sounds a little foreigner-ish to say 持っていますか)
688
No, because it's not talking about the location of the phone. Here arimasu means have. It's a perfectly valid way of asking someone if they have something and it's just as commonly used as motte imasu. In fact motte imasu is probably more accurately translated as do you have it on you right now/currently.
1185
Google "携帯があります" and it's basically all cell phone companies saying "we have phones". Yes, technically in English we translate it as have, but really it means "there are phones" or "phones exist" in their stores.
688
Either is fine BUT 電話は does sound a little clunky and is trickier to say. If I was talking with friends I would simply say けいたい 持ってる?Plain form, no particles.
688
Motte imasu do you have /have you got it right now? Arimasu do you have/have you got. Motte imasu is more immediate.
709
Of verb 持つ, which form is more correct to use to indicate possession? The present simple form (持つ/持ちます) or the continuous form (持っている/持っています)?
1185
No, 持つ (motsu) is just one of those verbs that you need to use in the present progressive form (持っています) to mean that something is currently in one's possession (where in English we would usually just use the present tense).
First one didn't have wo(o), but second one had wa https://www.duolingo.com/comment/22896119 And third one has o again?
859
I consider to use the te form is equivalent to 'having" your phone on you at the time of asking.
688
When it's a question with tiles to choose there is an option to switch to a keyboard and type your own answer in. I think I have only seen this on my pc though, not on my cell.