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"Are you doing well?"
Translation:Ça va bien ?
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What about faites-vous bien? I didn't get point :( Google translate lied to me D:
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Google translator is only good for literal translations so many times will not give the correct answer. I would avoid using it
"Faites-vous bien ?" is grammatically correct, but you would not say it to mean "are you doing well?" with the meaning of "are you working well?" .
It would need an object, like "Faites-vous bien vos devoirs ?" (are you doing you homework well?)
Why are you using google translate? You're supposed to be learning on your own.
it's okay to use google translate but you just shouldn't be dependant on it. It isnt a dictionary nor does it work in the same way, so for learning a new language it is only really good for learning specific words or terms, not necessarily for sentences. Hope that helps :)
Cuz,nerd,we are language learners so bugg off and shut up lol or i will execute you and hack and delete ur account so let us be!
Princess wolfgorl
yes, thats the answer I wrote and it is correct. Not Awesome but I got a 'great'. Its better than being wrong.
That's ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ stupid. Literally word for word and they change the meaning. Why they gotta be difficult? -.-
I think a true French person would understand it, in real conversation it could be acceptable you know what I mean?
I was "close". Ça va bien ? is not quite the same as Ça va bien? (Say what?) Does the space really matter?
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First you are asking if the person is going (doing) well. Second you are asking if it (life) is going well.
I think when you say "Ca va bien" it is only when talking about yourself?
At my college newspaper we use to add 2 spaces after a period more for aesthetics. English speaker/American
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Me too, but using 2 spaces after a period is from the days of typewriters that had fixed width characters, so the period was centered within a pretty large gap. The two spaces helped to make the sentence breaks clearer. This is not how things were ever typeset, nor is it needed with modern computers that use variable width characters. So in this case it was a workaround for a fairly primitive printing device, rather than a printing convention, as it apparently is in French.
For “Are you doing well?” I answered with: Ça vas bien? I was told that was wrong. The reason I was given was this: You used the tu form "vas" instead of the il/elle/on form "va". Can someone explain why we use the il/elle/on form when we are trying to say “you”, not he/she/it. The correct solutions were: Ça va bien? And: Ça va bien ? (this last one just has a space between bien and the question mark). I hope someone can understand my confusion.
In the sentence "ça va bien", the subject is "ça", short version of "cela" which is 3rd person singular, like "it/that".
Ohhh! Thanks Sitesurf. Now another question: I'm not familiar with "cela" (yet). Is it similar to c'il y a?
No, "s'il y a..." means "if there is..." where the <s'> is contracted from "si" (=if).
To understand "ceci" and "celà", you may to start with the literal translation: ceci = this thing here and celà = that thing there):
- this is longer than that = ceci est plus long que celà
As in English, "ceci/this/here" is closer to you in time or space and "celà/that/there" is further in time or space.
In speech, "celà" is simplified as "ça" but "ceci" is never simplified.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but "ca va bien?" Means "Is it going well?" rather than "How are you doing?" hence the third-person form of aller (forgive the lack of a cedille, my phone can't type those, need a new keyboard)
Literally you may be right, but colloquially ça ba bien? is ok.
By the way, on most phones, accented characters may be obtained by holding down the letter for a while and moving to the desired character. So press down on the c for a bit to get c with a cedilla etc.
ça va bien = impersonal (ça = like "it", 3rd person singular)
Tu vas bien = personal, 2nd person singular
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Perhaps you missed the question mark. If you missed it, you made an exclamation rather than asking a question.
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The verb is aller, which is an irregular verb. The form with Ça is va; with tu it is vas.
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Yes, but to me it does mean: "How are you doing? well? That is what the comma is for. I agree that "Comment ca va bien" without a comma (and with the circumflex which I can't type here...) would be incorrect.
In this case, you have to put the "?".
Comment ça va? Bien? (or: Bien j'espère? ) Yes, it's correct?
It says it could also be translated as "Vas-tu bien?" This has never been covered in the lessons. What's the diff?
No "ça va" is only used for health (I'm fine), or to mean, "it's ok", like in this example:
-How is your pupil's work today?
-ça va/ ça peut aller.
-Do you think my drawing is ok? -oui, ça va!
It's not very enthusiastic here...
The confusion, is because they didn't teach "Comment ça va?" and "Comment allez-vous?" before teaching "ça va bien" and "ça va".
Let's try to start again...
The proper formal form is "Comment allez-vous?"/ "Comment vas-tu?"
Then, the informal form use the impersonal "ça" instead of the pronoun "vous" and "tu". Comment ça va? is more informal, because of that pronoun replacement.
Then, an even more informal form is "ça va?", shortened for of "Comment ça va?"
Then "ça va?" can become "ça va bien?, because you take the reply, to turn it as a question (a very informal way to ask question, even in English: it's ok?)
The correct answer was : 'Allez -vous bien' Duolingo hasn't taught me that yet, what does it mean?
I am confused as well. The answer is apperantly Tu vas bien? Which I haven't been taught yet smh
whats the diferents to va and vas, my question was are you doing well, so i put tu va bien, but its tu vas bien. Can someone explain, merci!
There are two words for different context.
"Bien" is an adverb (well), and "Bon"/"Bonne" is an adjective, (good). To mean how is the health of someone, use "well" (bien), because the adjerb modifies the meaning of the verb.
Allez-vous bien is correct, it is a more formal phrase, but it means exactly the same thing : Allez-vous bien or ça va bien.
Interesting how when you answer some questions correctly program gives you the exact same answer you provided as an alternate answer/ sharp software or programmer!!!
It's probably because you wrote ça va bien? And with a space ça va bien ? Is a printing convention in France
No, you can't. In form of a joke, some people say "comment vas-tu bien ?" where the answer is in the question...
Comment vas-tu? Or Comment ça va? But you can't put "bien" in the question, except in "ça va bien?" (that is more a statement turned into a question, that a real proper question.
Okay, I wrote 'vas bien' - which I know for a fact is colloquially correct. Grrrrr.
Sorry, but in common usage "ça va bien?" has the same sense as "are you doing well?" and should be accepted
One is asked with a questioning voice, with the end of the sentence going up in intonation. This is a perfectly acceptable way to ask a question in French (and English).
Both, confusingly. Haha! "Ça va" as a statement means "I'm (doing) fine". "Ça va?" as a question means "How are you (doing)?"
Translation more formal "Allez-vous bien ?" Not accepted, why? It is really French.
This exercise has a defect. The fill-in-the-blank ones do not bring up the keyboard so it is impossible for me to complete the sentences. I could, however, bring up my clipboard so I was able to paste in that nonsense and so proceed, but with an incorrect answer. Because of that I an not allowed to complete the exercise.
Why Tu vas bien? I haven't seen this before, then your answer says Ça va bien?
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Well, that's funny - the translation here shows "Ça va bien," but that is marked wrong when you're going through the exercises, and it shows "Tu vas bien" as the correct answer. Grrrr
So what is the correct translation for "are you doing well?", is it "ca va bien?" or "tu vas bien?"
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I used the words it gave me "ça va bien" (they are in bubbles so you can't add punctuation), they answer above^^^ says the same thing, but I was marked Incorrect - should be "Tu ça va bien?" Why the incorrect mark?
Duolingo is giving me an incorrect and says the correct is tu vas bien?? get your languages straight jajajajaja
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Je ne suis pas trop d' accord avec cette manière de traduire les interrogations . La bonne traduction serait : "Allez vous bien ? " Dans une phrase interrogative il y a inversion du sujet et du verbe . C'est systématique dans la langue écrite ...
Effectivement, dans la langue parlée cette inversion ce fait rarement , mais l' interrogation est donnée par l' intonation , par exemple , par écrit et toujours " allez vous bien ? ", ou " vas tu bien ? " en langue parlée " vous allez bien " ou "tu vas bien ? " l' interrogation sera donnée par l' intonation avec un léger sur- aigüe sur le dernier mot
Tu vas bien was accepted. I didn't have the options of neither ça nor va.
"Tu vas bien" was accepted. I didn't have the options of neither ça nor va.
Vas has not been introduced yet, how would I know it is part the answer?
why isn't it ca va bien ? why is it tu vas bien ? it is asking are u okay meaning plural?
The option ca va bien wasnt available and im still new to french so i had no idea what to do.
If "ça va bien" is "are you doing well" then what's wrong with "tu va bien" can anyone explain this. Please.
Comment ça va? should be approved, Nobody ever says, "are you doing well", its a literal translation of "ça va bien" which you do say in French, not in English but should be translated as, "how are you", etc, etc...
:) :} Gros nul vous êtes tous bêtes car moi j ai 6 ans et je connais super bien le français
I was taught, "Ça Va bien" up until now(on Duo), but that wasn't given as option here. I had use Google Translate which suggested "Tu vas bien?" As an answer. Can somebody te me the difference between the two? (Vas on its own meant 'going', idk what is happening)
I feel like the hearts make this more stressful and not as fun if you didn't have them because you focuse more on the hearts not the actual thing so its harder to learn it.
Vous is the proper pronoun to learn first since you need to be formal when speaking.
Is something wrong with putting "Es tu bein?" The meaning is almost the same.
Honestly i don't think they should put two suggestions ( one being a question and the iyher just in general) because it can become confusing.
Va is what verb? If I know that, I will know how does Tu has 'vas' and not 'es'
I haven't heard the word 'vas' how was I supossed to fill in a word witch I haven't heard or seen prior to this
All you ask in this lesson is comment ça va and suddenly you want tu vas bien? For heaven's sake, they mean the same thing!!!
Is there a glitch in the system. It say tu vas bien though I click into here and above the answer is ca va bien?
The ward" are" has two ways to write Sont .. es What is the differences in use
The verb être means to be. In French this, and all other verbs, are conjugated into six different forms for each tense depending on the subject. In English verbs normally have only two conjugations for each tense, but to be has three: I am, you are and he/she/it is.
The French verb être in present tense indicative:
Je suis=I am
Tu es=You are (singular informal form of you)
Il/elle/on est=He/it/she/it/one is
Nous sommes=We are
Vous êtes=You are (singular formal and plural informal/formal form of you)
Ils/elles sont=They are
Since English and French do not conjugate the same way is this a difficult thing to grasp and to remember. A good advice is not to learn the subject and verb form apart ("Je"="I") but as a unit ("Je suis"="I am"). This way you will know when to use which "are" when.
So many variations of "are you doing well?" "How are you?" "Are things good?" Etc. I am so lost and ended up using "ça va ?" Or "ça va bien ?" For everything.. :(
I living in France now and people say ''tu vas bien?'' instead of ''vas tu bien?''. Why??? :) Maybe they didn't know about duolingo...
Hi, why is "Comment vas-tu" correct and not "Comment tu-vas " like in Joe Dassin's song : "Salut, comment tu vas?" :)
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I typed "tout va bien?" but it gave me error...I guess that's not the "literal" translation...
I'm not French, but I've lived and worked in France, and taught English as a foreign language to French speakers - in my opinion that should be allowed. (I'm finding this site very good at brushing up my many spelling errors.)
Technically it is closer to 'how goes it' or 'how are you' than 'are you doing well.' But I have to say, I've heard your version far more often than the other.
It could be that they are trying to teach you a construction in this case, (the inverted verb pronoun as a way of asking a question) which will be useful further down the line, but just so you know - if you said this in France everyone would know you were asking after their well being. Don't be discouraged! Duolingo are very good at enforcing grammar rules without you noticing, and I think that is what has happened here.
Your translation is grammatically correct, but "faites-vous bien ?" does not inquire about somebody's health but whether or not that person is actually doing/making something the right way.
1) caps lock = shouting; 2) the expression is in proper English, but is hardly used anymore, at least where I live
Good question. With inflection (going up at the end) it would work perfectly well in colloquial speech (though technically it means 'it goes well.' You would be more correct and better understood, however, if you said something like 'va-tu bien?' or even 'tu va bien?' as a rhetorical question. Duolinguo can't afford to cover every single permutation of an answer though - there can be literally dozens. They're trying to teach the precise grammar. But don't feel bad - as I said, your reply would be understood. (I know that my level isn't reflected on here, but I do speak good French, having lived and worked there three years.)
to be doing well means to be healthy, to feel fine.
In French, to say the same thing, you have to use the verb "aller":
- vas-tu bien ? - est-ce que tu vas bien ? - tu vas bien ? are the 3 interrogative forms (from formal to standard to colloquial)
- allez-vous bien ? - est-ce que vous allez bien ? - vous allez bien ? are the 3 alternatives to translate "you" to the formal singular "vous" or the plural "vous".
Since 'Comment allez-vous?' is also correct, why not 'Comment allez-vous bien?'
Like "how are you doing fine?" - "how/comment" is a question that may not assume the answer.
It shouldn't be. Unless Duo got fed up with your lack of a cedilla accent (it has never done this to me). Or else, there is a spelling mistake. If not, report it.
I fail to see how "how are you" and "are you doing well" translate to the exact same thing. They may have a relatively similar meaning but one is a yes/no question and one isn't, and in terms of actual word structure they seem quite different.
Why is it not acceptable to use "comment ça va bien" the same as "ça va bien"?
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the correct form for tu is vas, not va. What you have said is a bad grammar version of "how you go well".
The same sht ( WHY DUOLINGO IS PUTING ÇA VA BIEN . IF ITS WRONG ? ) PS OF SHT.
Wait, what is the correct answer? The forum top says Ça va bien? But my app says Tu vas bien?
When do you use Ca va bien and tu vas bien? Or are they the same and can be used at any time?
When does one use ca va bien and tu vas bien? Or can they both be used interchangeably?
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Les deux, si tu écris « Ça va bien ? » avec la cédille et « Tu vas bien ? » avec la marque d’interrogation pour les deux. Sinon, ils ne signifient pas la même chose !
Does "Ça va bien" mean both "How are you doing?" and "I'm doing good"? It's what Duolingo is teaching me.
CA VA bien? =are you doing well? So why not - are you doing well means ca va bien?
So "Ça va bien?" and "Tu vas bien?", Both work here? If yes, isn't that confusing?
I noticed that in lessons furthers on down the lesson tree it begins to teach a more proper way of saying things like this. Duo starts off extremely basic now then will get into what native french consider proper.
"Tu ca va bien?" is wrong. It should be "Tu vas bien?" or more commonly "Vas-tu bien?".
What is the difference between comment ça va, and ça va bien ,and tu vais bien?
I'm really confused, I got this wrong, and Duolingo says the correct answer should be Tu vas bien? WTF?
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Ce sont deux verbes, (es) (tu es _ you are) est la conjugaison du verbe être (to be) et (vas) (tu vas _ you go) est la conjugaison du verbe aller (to go)
I have never heard "tu va bien" before. Is that correct? I went through french immersion in school and we always just used "ca va?"
You should ask like " comment vas-tu? " Because is like you arent doing. A question
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hi, if anyone is willing to answer this : do french ppl still type w the accents like in 'ça' 'bientôt' etc when texting casually or do they just go w 'ca' 'bientot'? or does it just not matter lmao?
Comment ça va=how are you doing? (Formal) Ça va bien/ça va= how are you? (Casual)
I haven't practiced French in 2 years. I forgot about the grammar, lololol
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You did not show this in lessons first and now youre asking about it. how am i supposed to know it?
You haven't taught me about this and gave the question,why? Please check it next time
I put ça vas bien and it said i was wrong but when you click the underlined phrase it shows that as an option
Es tu ca va bien??? Why is this not right. Tu vas bien ( vas = going to ) right or wrong?
I assume since "Ont vous ca va" is wrong that mustn't have been the answer!? LoL
Ont is the third person plural form of avoir (to have) in present tense indicative. It should match ils and elles.
Va is the third person singular form of aller (to go) in present tense inficative. It should match il, elle and on.
Ça is an abbreviated form of cela which contains the la. It thus is connected to the third person singular.
"Ça va" is a correct match which means "it goes".
Vous is the second person plural and gives the verb forms avez for avoir and allez for aller in present tense indicative.
In your sentence "ont vous ça va", you have 2 verbs, so it can't be correct, you have "ont" (to have), and "va" (to go). And you have also 2 subjects, "vous" and "ça", it can be both "you" and "it" in the same sentence.
"ça va" being a very informal way to say it: there's no verb/subject inversion.
Vous allez bien, can be "Allez-vous bien?" as a question.
No. It makes no sense in French.
You have ot use the verb "aller" (to go), because it's an idiomatic expression, you can't use "to do" (faire), because it's only mean the real action fo doing in French (except in some expressions, but not this one)
Tu vas bien ? is more limited as it is only possible to ask one person one is familiar with. And it could be interpreted as Are you walking well? Ça va bien ? is possible to ask anyone, even a group, and means How are you? or Is everything all right?.
The ward" are" has two ways to write Sont .. es What is the differences in use
The word are have in fact four different French translations, for four different persons. That is why you have to learn each verb form together with its pronoun: tu es, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils/elles sont.
The verb être (=to be) in present tense indicative:
Je suis=I am
Tu es=You are (informal singular you)
Il est=He is/It is
Elle est=She is/It is
On est=One is (non-numerical one)
Nous sommes=We are
Vous êtes=You are (formal singular you or informal/formal plural you)
Ils sont=They are (Ils for all masculine or mixed gender they)
Elles sont=They are (Elles for all feminine they)
