"你们都很忙。"
Translation:You are all busy.
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It should. Report it. Especially here in the south, Y'all are busy is common
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I don't think that that gets across the full meaning though. It should rather be ‘Y'all are all busy.’ or ‘All y'all are busy.’: not only is there more than one of you (indicated in Chinese by ‘们’ and in southern U.S. English by the suffix ‘'all’) but also none of you is an exception (indicated in Chinese by ‘都’ and in English by the separate word ‘all’).
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Translating you plural as "Guys" sounds more like foreigners attempting to sound native and colloquial. If this is on the side that I understand, what am I being taught in the languages where I do not have native understanding?
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Yes. I think it is just a necessary move to distinguish between 'you' (single) and 'you' (plural), and not one based on frequency or attractiveness of the utterance
i put very and i got i it wrong, what wrong in putting very ? very is 很in mandarin
i' m trying this mandarin course because i was in a grade 11 mandarin class and from Asia and little rusty because i haven't ❤❤❤❤❤ it in a while. but i'm pretty sure that very is 很 in mandarin and it not wrong to add it.
In the textbook 'Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar' they are translating 很 hěn as 'very' in the sentence. 他们都很忙 Tāmen dōu hěn máng. They are all very busy. 她少她今天很忙. Tā shǎo tā jīntiān hěn máng. She said she is very busy today. But actually it should not be translated as 'very' according to this explanation:
https://www.digmandarin.com/using-hen-with-adjectives.html
The basic formula for Noun + “is” + Adjective in Chinese: Noun + 很 + Adjective.
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Seems like "you guys all are busy" should also be ok? It is a more literal translation of what is on the page...
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The duolingo should realize that when they have changed 'you guys' to 'you all' to translate 你们, it made the meaning of the other 'all' (都) confused.
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Does this sentence need the 都 to be grammatically correct? 你们 already says that you are addressing multiple people since 们 is added to 你. Are both correct sentences?
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It can be 你们很忙... but the 都 specifies that each and everyone of you are busy. As in "you are busy" or "you are all busy".
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So, should we not usually translate"very"?
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很 is a bit of an odd character in that it does mean very but it is also most often used simply as what they called in my high school a 'descriptive particle', basically meaning that before an adjective, to indicate that it was as such, you'd place that character. I don't know if there is really an equivalent in English so I can't really compare it to anything but I guess you could think of it as a grammar equivalent of how you might place a dollar sign before a number to indicate it being a price, e.g. $9. So to indicate that 忙 is an adjective you place 很, the 'descriptive particle', before it to make 很忙. [NB: I'm only a learner myself so anyone feel free to correct or adjust my reply if at all incorrect! :) ]
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Correct, to describe "very" you would double the adjective character.
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My guess is 很忙 can be translated as both "busy" and "very busy"
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You all are busy. (Not you are all busy)
Being all busy means "busy from head to toe", that's of course not meant here. The mods should look into it.
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I think "hen " in this case should be "shi" because in this kind of context it seems like it is saying " very busy". Instead of "am busy. "
My "'correct' solution was "Y'all are busy." I would never type Y'all or even you guys. That's unnatural in this setting.
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"All you guys are busy" should be accepted. "All OF you guys" is OK, of course, but the word "of" is optional in American English speech.
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他们 or 她们 is they... (masculine and femenine) .... 你们 is plural for you
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You need patience and to accept that you will make mistakes each and everyday but you just have to keep practicing until it comes naturally.
I wrote, "All you guys are busy." It said it was wrong, but isn't that a correct translation?
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I imagine it as saying "you", but pluraly. Like "yous" or something.
你们 is plural and "you" is ambiguous, so "you" should be accepted alongside "you guys" because of the ambiguity, especially since the sentence already indicates plural "you" with the "all". I also acknowledge that English is a dumb language for not having a specifically plural form of "you". (When learning other languages, I have resorted to "youse" for clarity).
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You are dumber than the dumbest kid I know of ever! So shut up, hypershock. Hypershock?? What kind of name is that?? The only person I knew that believes hyper can shock is you, dumb-goose-that-is-dumber-than-a-baby!!
