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"They are all girls."
Translation:彼女たちはみんな女の子です。
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Using かのじたち for "they" makes the statement that they are all gurls very redundant. :/
is there really a distinction between みんな and みなさん, or are they just simply interchangeable...? my guess would be a more formal speech when みなさん is used.
When you are addressing the group directly use 皆さん。when you are talking about everyone in the abstract 皆
In my understanding, minna is when you're referring to people as third party and minasan is when you're addressing everyone directly
I read (on the Kanji Study App) that みんな is usually written as kana. So is the most canonical way to write this:
彼女たちはみんな女の子です
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The kanji for bu means parts, i'd say zenbu are usually used for objects, topics, departments 1etc. You can use zenbu on a human when you're talking about some parts of him, like all of his limbs, all of his hair.
I think it differentiates 'all of them are girls' vs 'some of them are girls'.
彼女たちは皆女の子です was marked incorrect while 彼女たちはみんな女の子です was correct. This is the second time I've run into a question where the hiragana みんな is accepted and the kanji 皆 is rejected. Really frustrating. By the way, this was a writing question, not a listening one.
皆さん minasan uses kanji, (more formal)
みんな minna uses kana
Both are ways of saying "everyone" in different situations and it's an N3 Jouyou kanji so it's still taught
But is the original, unemphasized 彼女たちはみな女の子です out of the question nowadays?
Is みんな the only way to say "all" in this context? 全ての人 seems to be another common way of saying "all men/people", but I'm not sure if can be used here, I suspect it's more like "every man"/"every woman". In fact "all" is actually more like an adverb here, meaning "without exception" or "entirely". What about 全員?
For Subete no hito(tachi) i'd use it when I'm saying "All of humanity". Unless you say subete no minasan or something in which the minasan is already addressing a defined group of people.
Zenin means everyone, but it also talks about a defined group of people, as in the company employees, family members etc
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So if you already know that your group is all female, you have to use 彼女たち, not 彼ら? But 彼ら can be used for mixed-gender/unknown gender groups, right?
