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- "你们都很忙。"
"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
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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There is no need for someone to put all twice in an English sentence. It doesn't give "the full meaning" and it is quite redundant.
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.
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?
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.
This is a great guide for those struggling to known when to use shi and when to use hen. https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/2015/07/09/shi-chinese/
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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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Seems like "you guys all are busy" should also be ok? It is a more literal translation of what is on the page...
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?
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".
忙 is an adjective so we don't use 是 but 很 that take balso the olace of tbe verb to be... Is that right?
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很 means "very" and isn't needed at all. 你们都忙。 is grammatically correct. It's just that many people use 很 without actually meaning it, so a lot of us are used to having it.
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It does. It doesn't matter whether there are 2 people or more people - we can use 都 in both cases.
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! :) ]
so we used 很 here like we used in 很高兴认识你 ? Like for someones emotion or situation ?
and we use 是 as a modifier right ?
why not use 是 but 很？ Is that also possible --> 你们都是忙 or is 很忙 a fixed combination or sum?
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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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.
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. "
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No. You can't always translate the English word to be to the Chinese word 是/shì. More often the word 很/hěn is used to connect the subject 你们/nǐmen (you) to the adjective 忙/máng (busy). Note that 很/hěn can sometimes mean very, but often it does not, like in this sentence.
I wrote, "All you guys are busy." It said it was wrong, but isn't that a correct translation?
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.
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).
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!!
