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"みなさんアメリカ人です。"
Translation:Everyone is American.
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We often drop は,が after the word みんな、みなさん、みなさま. For example, みんな元気です(みんなげんきです Everyone is well) or みなさん飲みに行きました(みなさん のみにいきました Everyone went out for a drink ).
The audio sounds like it has a が, but a が is not in fact necessary. I'd report the fault audio, though.
@Ever2662 I think this may be because the Japanese ん occurs when the back of the tongue touches the soft pallet (this is a nasal sound). In English there are two 'n' sounds as found in words such as ban and bang. Ban's 'n' is the tip of the tongue and bang's is like the Japanese variant. Interestingly enough, we don't always pronounce the g sound in bang unless it is followed by another vowel (head-banger). Based on this, the audio may not be incorrect, but instead, a native Japanese speaker would pronounce what sounds like a が simply because of the crossing of a ん and a vowel. Let me know what you all think.
Also, based on what I can tell, が 's articulation is also located on the soft palate so it would make sense that the transition between ん and が are so spiritually intertwined to put it one way.
No dont report Japanese female sound also in real life females are always talk like that you feel like they put ん in almost every sentence
Context, people. If this was asking about a tour group, "Do we have any Germans in this group?" "Everyone is American".|
Not everything in Duolingo needs to be taken as a universal declaration. Wait til you get to one of the "Blue turtles never fly" sentences in some of the other languages.
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Heheh, I know, right? I was imagining a Japanese person going to a restaurant that just opened in Tokyo and the only people there are American tourists. In response, the Japanese native gets this wide-eyed look of horror, wondering where his countrymen have gone. "Everyone is American..."
Given the amount of American politics in this comment section, one may be excused for believing that everyone actually IS American!
Don't think we wont invade, Canada! We just have to catch up on Game of Thrones, first.
Is there a the difference between minnasan (みんなさん）and minna（みんな）?? If yes what is the point? Thank you
The only difference is in the level of formality. Edit: I just noticed that you wrote "みんなさん". It should be "みなさん". That's probably one of the most common errors.
Doesn't the さん after みんな make it more likely that the speaker is referring to the audience group -- "All [of you] are Americans" ?
I had this same question- I wrote "You all are Americans" as the translation and it was marked incorrect...
I guess if Mina was a name it would have been written in katakana?!
Mina-chan or another cutesy suffix might be more appropriate for people on a first name basis with her, tho. XD
Not necessarily. As a Japanese girl's name, it could also be written in kanji or hiragana.
No, don't point it out! Now you're going to get the whole stadium chanting "U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A!" for 30 minutes >.<
Good job! -____-
が in this sentence after みなさん is very very unnatural. が or は is needed if subject is わたし or ゆきさん or someone but not あなた、みんな or みなさん unless you don’t know who you are. It’s hard to explain but ‘みなさんアメリカ人です“ doesn’t have to include you (“Everyone is American.”) but ”みなさんがアメリカ人です“ includes you “You are Americans”.
To avoid confusion, it’s better to say みんなアメリカ人です or 全員(が)アメリカ人です for to say Everyone is American.
みなさんがアメリカ人です would be acceptable when you are in the play and you don’t know who you are playing and ask “ Who is playing a roll of American?” And someone answers to you and some other people (not everyone) “You are the ones who are playing American”.
As an aside: this has to be the most....politically/socially charged content at the moment(2020-01-05), just wow.
Instead of this I answered: みんなさんはアメリカ人です。 Why is the use of は incorrect here?
