"他不做运动，只喜欢睡觉。"
Translation:He doesn't play sports, he only likes to sleep.
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Exercise ... play sports... do not convey the same meaning. You need to be specific.
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the tool tip lists exercise on top. When they teach us a new character they dont say what it means so we have to giess what they are talking about. Kind of takes away the fun in learning.
IIrc, exercise is translated by dalu (or something like that, or something else) but here the literal translation is something not sports
If you can't hear the difference between 她 and 他, then mark them both correct, Duo. >:(
He doesn't exercise, he only likes sleep. This should also be acceptable?
Okay this is stupid if i write "does not" it rejects it. It has to be the abbreviated version "doesn't"
"He does not do exercises; he only likes to sleep." is rejected.
It looks like "exercise" ("運動") is being used as a noun here, so singular or plural shouldn't matter.
No one says 做运动 in this kind of dialogue, usually the word 做 is omitted since the word "运动" is already a verb here. Adding that particular word is just redundant.
The literal character translation of 运动 is "move move", and means sports, exercise, motion, or movement, where the literal character translation of 体育 is "body education", and means sports or phys-ed.
"exercise" should be an acceptable replacement to "sports" in this context (put another way, if I wanted to say "he doesn't exercise", I would've used the same words).
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Good comments. Yes, the literal translation is: ' He not do sports, only likes to sleep '. However, when translating to English, it becomes: ' He doesn't play sports, ( he ) only likes to sleep, where the subject (he) is needed in the sentence.
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I wrote: "He doesn't play sports, he likes only sleeping.": Why is this wrong? [What is the difference with Duolongo's translation: "he only likes to sleep."? [12 dec. 2019, 13.43]
the answer could be guessed. my level is lower than answering this question !!!
Can't the word "only" be substituted by the word" just" ? Doesn't both carry the same meaning? same connotation? Phrase: "he only wants to sleep"
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I hope you are talking about the English sentence, not Chinese. The Chinese full-width comma is used completely differently to the English comma. The Chinese comma is used as a way to connect up sentences along a similar train of thought or topic.
When you see the symbol looking like a comma in Chinese, just think of it as a semicolon in English. It's not the same as an English comma.
Can this mean 'He doesn't like playing sports, only likes sleeping'? 运动 was used to mean sports in a previous exercise.
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I wrote: ' He doesn't play sports, ( he ) only likes to sleep ' and DL marked it wrong, because I left out ( he ). I reported it, but does anyone know why DL marked it wrong?
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I wrote like instead of likes . I forgot the "s" . He doesn't play sports, he only like to sleep. WHY is the whole sentence wrong? I don't understand ...
