"我们晚上九点吃饭吗?"
Translation:Do we eat at 9 in the evening?
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I said the same thing. One would certainly think or could even argue that it should be dinner given the time, but they don't mention dinner specifically, just 吃饭.
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Same for me. This one particular lesson is one of the most poorly programmed ones I've ever seen on Duolingo.
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The question of 'do we eat' versus 'are we eating' may be related to the question of which expressions are used in both languages to talk about a repeated schedule versus a one time event. For English, I think it could be argued that either can work for both, though I might be more inclined to use 'do ...' for repeated events. Do we eat (/are we eating) at 9 pm (tonight / every night [during our trip])?
There's nothing explicit in the Chinese sentence to help us pin it down to a specific day, but I am by no means certain that's excluded. Has anyone tried 'Will we eat ...'? If that's acceptable, then so should 'Are we eating' be, because the present progressive is a common alternative way to speak of the future.
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"Do we eat dinner at 9 in the evening?" was marked wrong. A meal at 9pm is called dinner, no? Or can 吃饭 also mean "snack"
Currently, the "correct" answer indicates "Do we eat at 9 in the evening?", but rejected "Do we eat in the evening at 9?". I would suggest there is no plausible reason for the English translation to be this rigid, even though the former is more frequently used. I would suggest Duo add a category of correct but not preferred if the want to communicate such.
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In American English we use tonight to refer to evening... what are you doing tonight? What is on TV tonight, where do we meet tonight? "this evening" is also used, but is rarer. Oh, as when we say "What did you do last night?" We mean BEFORE you went to bed and after to got home from work or school.
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asking questions I think that measure words in quantity questions doesn’t need a 吗。 我们晚上九点吃饭?should be enough in my opinion.?
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This answer should have been accepted "do we dine at 9 in the evening" as dine definition: 1. to eat the main meal of the day, usually in the evening: 2. to eat a meal in a re . . . . . . .
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I input this answer, but it was incorrect. Isn't it the same meaning?Are we going to have dinner at 9.00pm?
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I wrote "Do we eat dinner at 9 in the evening" Seems "dinner" is acceptable in other sentences but not in this one.... should fix this