"你的姐姐在饭馆。"
Translation:Your older sister is at the restaurant.
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At the restaurant is more correct, she could be waiting out front for someone! In or out it's not specifically stated
Please don't punish spelling: I spelled "restaurant" as "restaraunt" and was marked wrong ^_^
i know right!?! Spelling isn't one of my strong points anyways. WHY PUNISH!?
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Well the pronunciation is similar but probably there actually is a difference in pinyin, idk
I said big sister instead of older sister. That's just a tad bit irritating.
But in American English we would say" big sister" much more commonly than "older sister". It's just what we say, so the program should accept it.
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I'm actually starting to get bored of writing "older" or "younger" before sister or brother... Like why can't we just use sister?
In Taiwan "飯館/饭馆" is used but not as common as "餐廳/餐厅(cāntīng)."
Besides, "飯館/饭馆" is always an independently building (館/馆 itself means building) but "餐廳/餐厅" can also be used as a cafeteria inside a school. Another difference is that we usually don't call a Western or expensive restaurant "飯館/饭馆."
If you feel confused, I suggest that "餐廳/餐厅" is a safe choice.
It's easy to remember 餐厅 since its pronuciation is similar to canteen in english
Way too few phrases to translate, too many identical repetitions, should vary them a little, e.g. My/Your/Their older/younger sister/brother gimmme a break!
I put the correct answer and it said it was wrong. It matched with the answer.
Does anyone know how you would write "sisters" plural? As in "your older sisters are at the restaurant" Or is it only deduced via context? 你的姐姐在饭馆
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Sisters = 姐妹
Older sisters = 姐姐/姐姐们(which isn't used as much) and the same for younger sisters (妹妹).
It is usually deduced from the context.
Wow, talk about nit picky. This is the huge problem with this program, I am spending more time guessing what English they want me to write than I am working on Chinese. AT the restaurant works better and is more likely to be heard in native English. Nothing wrong with IN the restaurant but it should take "at" reported
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The audio sounds incredibly robotic as of January 5, 2020. It's almost like the person reading it recorded the characters in the sentence separately.
I said, "Your older sister is over at the restaurant" and it said. NOT CORRECT
Don't punish people for saying "your older sister's at the restaurant" or "your sister's at the restaurant"
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Yeah, I've never heard people use 饭馆 in everyday speech. Regional vocabulary differences maybe?
Why does zai=in when talking about countries but zai=at when talking about buildings?
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I don't think Chinese uses these prepositions, the closest I can think of is ”里面“ being used to specifically say inside a place ex: 我在图书馆里面 I am inside the library or without 里面， 我在图书馆 I am at the library
Shouldn't "你姐姐在饭馆“ also be accepted? Or not having 的 only if you are talking about your own family?
Couldn't 'your older sister is over at the restaurant' be a correct translation?
for me it was really difficult to hear/understand 姐姐， and 饭馆. I consider it a problem if I cannot understand a sentence without the assistance of the word bank.
I answered with: your big sisters' at the restaurant.
Duo "corrected" me with: You missed a space.
Your big sister is at the restaurant.
Totally missed my appropriate and correct conjunction.
I answered with: your bug sisters at the restaurant.
Duo "corrected" me with: You have an extra space. Your big sister is at the restaurant.
missing my misspelling and ignoring my lack of proper punctuation.
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My translation used a contraction and I got penalized for using "your sister's at the restaurant" instead of "your sister is at the restaurant."
I'm writing the right answer n still it's saying it's worng n showing the same answer as the correct answer
My wife (from Shenyang) says fan guan is quite wrong. That means a food stall, at best a little hole in the wall place. We have a good friend who is a restaurateur, and my wife warns me our friend would be quite offended if we referred to Wendy's fan dian as a fan guan.
my friend also said that. Duolingo should be more productive about comments
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里 needs to be added to this sentence if they want to specifically indicate that she's "at" the restaurant but inside. For instance, 家里 没有 人 translates as "there's no one at home" but what it literally means is that there's no one inside the house, vs 没有 人 在 家, which also translates as "there's no one home" but it could mean anywhere at the house, inside or outside.
I was trying to get this by ear, by clicking the audio button and looking away from the text on purpose. The second 姐 shot way up in intonation and threw me off until I read the text. It sounded like "jiějiē"
It's hard to understand why you think a programme would follow your mentality. You follow the programme.
LauraWhitm5 typical American, thinking this programme was built especially for Americans, when people world wide use it.
Learn to spell correctly. If we all wanted to accept ruoy gnilleps mistakes then the language would be changed.
Yeah I paste the word "restaurant" in these translations so I won't spell it wrong
because it's wrong. you need to specify comparative location in mandarin. the sentence says "at the restaurant," she could be inside or outside the restaurant.
at the restaurant is correct and should be accepted! not counted as wrong!! frustrating!!
cannot be counted as wrong!!! you force me to write in the restaurant while naturally I would say at the restaurant. So I will just write it for Duolingo and otherwise keep my logic
WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!! I spelled restaruant wrong and I got it wrong. If you know what it means shouldn't that mean you can get it right! Like really!
i don't have one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
