"Do you know her?"
Translation:你认识她吗？
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It says 你认识她吗 here but the exercise only has the words for 你知道她. The latter was accepted as correct. Is it though?
你知道她(吗) is not correct. 知道 is used for facts, 认识 for persons, places, movies, even things you can be "acquainted" with personally. Many languages distinguish these (for instance French: savoir/connaître; Spanish: saber/conocer; German: wissen/kennen).
Examples:
你认识她。 = You know her (personally, you met her).
你知道她不喝茶。= You know (the fact) that she does not drink tea.
你认识北京。= You know Beijing (personally, you have been there).
你知道北京很大。You know (the fact) that Beijing is big.
你认识《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班囚徒》。= You know "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (personally, you have read the book or watched the movie).
你知道《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班囚徒》是一本书。= You know (the fact) that "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is a book.
I wouldn't 100% agree with this as a native speaker. For the most part, yes - but I'd have to add that there's also an additional element of 知道 which refers more specifically to“know”。For example，“do you know who she is？”-vs. 认识（認識）which is more along the lines of，“to recognize”。Like in another context，“我知道我需要做什麼了”-”I know what I have to do now“ and ”我認識那個字！”-“I recognize that word！
I don't have the option to make the latter, either. 认 and 知 are both absent from the list of choices.
I ended up having to select: 你了解她 in order to pass.
I think it's because 你们 is more of a you (collective). Making 你们认说她吗？ translate as "do you all know her?"
this is real old, but it means do you know her or not pretty much, and is fully acceptable as the first one in chinese.
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I didn't have the option to choose "认识" despite it being in both solutions offered afterwards.
Do you know her. How can you tell if it's single or plural. You, in this sentence can be one person as well as a group. There is no way of knowing which is meant.
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吗 (Ma) = What?
Above is the literal translation of the character 吗 . It is usually appended at the end of a statement to convert it into interrogative.
Examples:
他们是学生 (Tāmen shì xuéshēng) = They are students.
他们是学生吗? (Tāmen shì xuéshēng ma?) = Are they students?
她是医生 (Tā shì yīshēng) = She is doctor.
她是医生吗? (Tā shì yīshēng ma?)= Is she doctor?
I have typed 你认识她妈？exactly multiple times, no spaces, with and without question mark and its still says its wrong. What am i missing? I cant complete the exercise now.
First of all, wrong tone for shen2. Second, shen2me is what. Me, on the other hand... did you mean ma? Ma is for the end of a question (most of the time, as long as you don't use verb-bu4-verb)
If 认识 is know, this sheds a whole new light on the "pleased to meet you" exercise.
Why should I know the answer? I have nearly NO experience with these characters or what they stand for. When you have us identify the sound paired with a character, please give the MEANING in the same frame.
What is the different between ”你认识他妈” and "你们认识他妈” for Do you know her ? isn't “你们” meaning "you guys" in English ? Why both mean "you" ?
Yes, ni3 is you and ni3men is you guys/you all (I'll just say you plural), but sometimes in English, you will use you instead of you with something attached to it.
I typed 妈 instead of 吗。Can someone explain the difference to me? They're both "ma" in pinyin.
The first, ma1 is mom, usually used in ma1ma. Second is ma and it is used at the end of the questionl.
Not clear if "you" here is toward a single individual or a group. In english these are the same word whether you are talking to a person or a group of people. The exercise prior used plural "you".
i wrote "你认识他妈" and it said it was wrong while showing it as the solution!!!
The radical is different. You wrote "You know his mom" when it should be "Do you know him?" Totally different.
