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- "快一点儿！"
"快一点儿！"
Translation:Faster!
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Pronunciation is 'kuai4 yi4dianr3.' Bit tricky but the last two characters are pronounced as one syllable: 'dyair' (sorta). Altogether 'yidianr' is used after an adjective to mean, roughly, 'a little more' of that adjective. At least to my understanding, I'm by no means fluent in this language haha.
That's about right, it is also, mainly, a Northerner dialect thing, so a Southerner, would probably just say 快点 or 快一点. It's the same thing for 那里、哪里、这里 and 那儿、那儿、这儿.
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But, wouldn't 快点 literally mean "fast time"? I wonder whether chinese has superlative or not. Because, as a non native, I feel like 快一点儿 sounds better since it literally means "a bit more fast".
"Slow down" is accepted for : 慢一点儿！
Yet, "Speed up" is NOT accepted for : 快一点儿！
This is an inconsistency between lessons.
Americans would never say "speed up" in that context. If someone is lagging, you would say "hurry up" or "come on, let's go" or "chop chop". Never "speed up". You do say "slow down" if someone is going too fast.
I would disagree, i have a vague memory of using "speed up" naturally, i mean, i also am bilingual in Spanish so im not a good example as "Ándale" is my go to
You would use speed up in the context of a car or vehicle speeding up etc. but as this is phone conversation, speed up is not used in British English nor American English in this context.
"Speed up" sounds a bit insulting, or at least highly colloquial… like you would hiss to someone in traffic who cannot hear you anyway. What do others think about this?
I agree! If "Faster!" is acceptable... I feel like "Quicker!" would be as well.
That was the first thing that came to mind as well, but on second thought, while not wrong, that is more 快点儿！.
So as i understand:
To make a comparative you add 一点儿 after adj: (快)fast-er(一点儿)
To make an adverb you add 得 before adj : (慢)slow-ly(得)
To put an adjective (epithet) : adj+的+discribed noun
To put an adjective (attribute of subject): subject+很+adj
Why do you need four characters for such a simple expression? What do they do, individually, here?
As I understand, 一点儿 softens the tone of the command and makes the sentence more polite
I said "quickly!" and I got it wrong, then Duolingo corrected me to "More quickly" which sounds awkward af. Nobody whom I know who can speak English has ever said something like that, ever! Not even my 12354634624 English teachers I've studied with since the beginning of time.
you know what sounds really awkward besides the word awkward? "Honey whose underpants am I laying on?"
I am a native English speaker and I agree with you. I would say quickly. More quickly is strange even though grammatically it is okay
You need to type "a bit faster" but there is no "a" to choose from. It always tells me that there is an "a" missing.
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"A bit faster" is accepted if you switch to typing (may or may not be possible in the phone app but in the web you can switch to typing instead of choosing from the words)
I don't get it. I thought 一点儿 was meant to make the sentenc more polite. Saying "faster!" Is the exact opposite of polite.
I think yours was wrong because you included a verb, which is technically a key word and could change the meaning & structure of the sentence dramatically.
The Chinese sentence did not specify a verb, so when you translate you shouldn't use a verb.
I had gotten this one wrong in the first go round by not typing "a bit." It showed up again so I typed "Speak a bit faster" and then its wrong. Which is it?
I agree, especially when "slow down" is accepted as the opposite command.
