"どの国に行ったことがありますか？"
Translation:Which countries have you been to?
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Well, technically it should be "to which countries have you been" so that it doesnt end on a proposition but I won't tell.
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There's actually nothing technical about that rule. It's an arbitrary one made up on the basis that English should emulate Latin grammar.
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Much in standard English is that way. And yet, it is considered more proper. Rules of any language did not fall out of heaven :)
I'm not English and I want to be sure I have understood you : so we have to say : "which countries have you been ?" Without "to". Thanks
They're saying you should say "to which countries have you been?", with "to" at the beginning because some English speakers think you can't end a sentence with a preposition. In my dialect of English, it is fine to say "which countries have you been to?" with "to" at the end.
That is more unnatural. Include the 'to'. "Which countries have you been to?" is what the majority of native English speakers would say.
Absolutely horrible English. Yes Which countries have you been to? is correct and the English sentence should be corrected.
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Not a rule of grammar but one of semantics. Normally “I have been there” is used to mean “I went there and came back”
may 31, 2020 the official sentence is "Which countries have you been to?"
no idea what it was before but i guess i'm glad lol
Depends on what you mean by "incorrect". Some Japanese people would write the kanji, and actual usage is an important part of language. But the correct grammatical usage in this sentence is to write it in kana.
In short, こと is "thing." It's basically the intangible version of 物. So in this case it effectively makes the concept of "having gone to a country" a noun.
In English, this question is in the present perfect tense, have + past participle of the verb. Japanese does not have a present perfect tense. The equivalent of asking a person if they have the experience of doing something is
(past tense of the verb) koto ga arimasu ka?
行ったことがありますか？
itta koto ga arimasu ka?
Have you been to ~ ?
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To better understand it, ~に行ったこと means "the fact that you have been to~"; Once the subject has been to that place, such fact exists, but not existed, at the time the question is asked. So it is in present tense. You would use past tense if the time reference is in the past: 去年アメリカへ行ったことがありました。Last year I had been to America.
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I know the Japanese run the "i" in ni and itta together, but to my ear, unless this is written down, "に行った" , you appear to be missing the vital part of the verb. The audio pauses after "ni" sound, then goes on "takoto... ". Is he/she saying this correctly? Don't like my chances of understanding in Japan if that's correct?
どの is an adjective that needs to attach to a noun; it can't be used by itself.
どちら is a pronoun that can stand on its own. It would need の after it to modify another noun (どちらの国).
Why is it not "どの国に行ったのがありますか"?? That was the form we used a lot in the sections before
Because this construction requires こと. -たことがある is a set construction expressing what is technically referred to as the "experiential aspect", that is, a form indicating that one has had the experience of doing something.
"Have you been going to?" implies that you are continuing to go to those countries. 行ったことありますか is asking about past experiences that are finished. Which countries have you had the experience of going to?
is the 'i' sound from the end of 'kuni[country]' really held all they through the 'ni' and the 'i [go verb] until the ta?
The audio is TTS (text-to-speech robots), so vowel sounds often blend together.
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No one has yet addressed the issue of being unable to hear the somewhat necessary "行っ"in "行った".
The male audio at the top of this thread sounds fine to me. If you encountered incorrect audio during the lesson, it's best to use the report flag or submit an error report to let people know who can possibly do something about it.
The male audio at the top of this thread sounds fine to me. If you encountered incorrect audio during the lesson, it's best to use the report flag or submit an error report to let people know who can possibly do something about it.
There's a similar discussion above that might answer your question: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/23150181?comment_id=37328412
I tried "which country have you went to" because of how I understood "koto", which is improper english, I suppose. And if the question where about a specific country, a different article would be used?
As in, "Which countries have you went to"?
I think most (all?) english speakers would understand "went to" in this context, but it isn't "correct" grammar: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/learn-the-difference-between-gone-and-went-in-less-than-a-minute/