"我们的孩子每个晚上喝牛奶。"
Translation:Our children drink milk every evening.
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That was my first translation of the sentence, and I can't see what implies that the sentence must be plural.
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There isn't anything to indicate it without context. I've reported it again
Obviously I don’t mean this sentence because there is no context here. I mean in the real world will be able to tell from context.
Precisely my point. Here in the absence of any other information it could be singular or plural child(ren).
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As blofatti wrote, 孩子 can be either "child" or "children." Many of the "correct" translations here are overly restrictive and do not recognize either correct English alternatives or the range of possible translations the Chinese original may offer.
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我们的孩子们每个晚上喝牛奶。Our children drink milk every evening. 我们的孩子每个晚上喝牛奶。Our child drinks milk every evening.
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“our child drinks milk every evening” was marked as wrong reported：2018年6月22日
Agree with others, "孩子" can indicate either plural or singular. The singular should not be marked as an error.
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Right... as usually consistency. Sometimes child is correct, sometimes children... I guess "Our child drinks milk every evening" should be accepted.
Still waiting for "Our child drinks..." to be accepted, it seems
i wrote "our children every evening drink milk" and it's wrong, it should have been correct since in english time position in a sentence is more flexible unlike in chinese
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It's not correct. No native speaker would ever say "Our children every evening drink milk".
