"What did she do last Tuesday?"
Translation:她上个星期二做了什么?
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- The 個 can be omitted, and is elsewhere in this course.
- The date can come before the subject.
- 了 may not be needed when the time word is already in the sentence. It is an aspect marker, NOT A TENSE. In this case, the past action may not be completed, but i'm not 100% sure the rules for past questions. It should be reviewed by Chinese linguist / native.
It did not ask for 个 previously on this same exact sentence! 她上星期二做了什么 (no 个) before Tuesday, but they required 个 before 'weekend' - 你上个周末做了什么? nǐ shàng ge zhōu mò zuò le shén me ? What did you do last weekend?
Google translates it no 个: 她上星期二做了什么? Tā shàng xīngqí'èr zuòle shénme? Microsoft Translator no 个 : 她去年星期二做了什么?tā qù nián xīng qī èr zuò le shén me? Knock, knock, knock... do I hear the sound of heads banging the wall or sizzle, sizzle, sizzle... is your noodle baking?
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I said 上个星期二她做了什么?and its good. Im not sure why I put when first. I guess it sounds easier to say. I new so I've no clue
- The 個 can be omitted, and is elsewhere in this course.
- The date can come before the subject.
- 了 may not be needed when the time word is already in the sentence. It is an aspect marker, NOT A TENSE. In this case, the past action may not be completed, but i'm not 100% sure the rules for past questions. It should be reviewed by Chinese linguist / native.
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I need some help figuring out the Chinese keyboard... When I want to type this sentence, sometimes it turns out like this: 她上个星期儿做了什么? I figured that this keyboard would be clever enough that I mean 星期二 instead of 星期儿, but sadly it isn't. I mean, 星期儿 doesn't make any sense anyway, right? Is this even a word? How would I go about telling the keyboard which characters I need? I see there is a floating comma thing on this keyboard, does that do anything? Can you select characters mid-sentence? Any help is much appreciated.
The answer to your question depends upon which platform you are using. The answer is different depending if you're using iOS, Android, Mac OS, Windows, etc. Further, you can either use the standard input method which comes with your platform or you can download a third party one.
It also matters what input method you are using, by that I mean 注音 (zhuyin), 拼音 (pinyin) or any of the many other input methods. Most people here probably use pinyin to type.
Personally I use 注音, and on Mac and iOS I use the built-in keyboard layout, on Windows I use a third-party one. They each have slightly different rules. For example:
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the built-in pinyin input for Mac https://chinese.yabla.com/type-chinese-characters.php?platform=mac doesn't allow you to specify tones,
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the built in zhuyin input for Mac doesn't allow you to not specify tones
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the built in zhuyin input for iOS allows you to specify tones if you want to, and not if you don't want to. Its internal dictionary also gets regularly updated with new topical terms.
Anyway, all of this is to say that you'll need to be more specific about what you're using to get helpful advice.