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"What is her phone number?"
Translation:彼女の電話番号は何ですか?
July 15, 2017
20 Comments
Chris262057
374
Hi TyrantRC, your reference is right. It MUST be 何番 (not just 何), as I was pointed to in several occasions! Duo really should not adopt to that floppy language.
awrszu
306
Not a native speaker, but I think usually the subject or object of the sentence should be established first (in this case, the girl's phone number), before taking an action on it (such as asking for it).
The transliteration of the Japanese sentence would be something like, "As for her phone number, what is it?" It doesn't flow too well in English (hence the official answer is "What is her phone number?"), but that's one of the idiosyncrasies of the language I reckon.