"我想请你们来我的家吃午饭。"
Translation:I'd like to invite you to come to my place to eat lunch.
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B o u l d 1, you make a very good point. This isn't a grammar class. The problem is almost always with the simple lack of flexibility in the English for Duolingo. There are probably five ways to express this idea even using the same verbs and nouns. But Duolingo is a program not an AI programmed to be a native speaker. But it's free!
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In American English, "you" is mostly used to address a single person in conversation. When speaking directly to more than one person, we typically say, "you two", "you all", "both of you", "all of you", "everyone", "everybody", etc.
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You didn't translate 请 ("to invite").
Without "to invite", your sentence expresses a wish or a desire instead of actually inviting someone over.
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Please change the standard translation to simply "you" (from "you all"). "You all" is not universally used by native English speakers. "You" is the correct second person plural, all other variations are just that - variations.
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how come sometimes it is "wo jia" vs. "wo de jia" for "my home"? I've noticed this in other lessons as well with "wo ma ma" vs. "wo de ma ma" for example. When do you need the 'de' and when is it not needed? when is it interchangeable?? Cheers!
The word bank can give you a right answer, it was just not the right answer you wanted. It can give you: " I'd like to invite you to come to my place to eat lunch." - not the answer I wanted to give: " I'd like to invite you to come to my place for lunch." - which I did enter without the word bank. It was accepted as well.
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The Chinese sentence here is not a command but an invitation (hence, the use of 请).
吧 is more of offering a suggestion of what to do together ("let's ...").
The command "Come (over) to my place" is probably simply 来我家 (similar to other varieties of Chinese).
How many Chinese does it take to make an enjoyable and effective Duolingo language tree? DON'T ask the Owl; it's still trying to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.