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"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!?
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.
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!
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
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.
511
Yeah, I've never heard people use 饭馆 in everyday speech. Regional vocabulary differences maybe?
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.
Why does zai=in when talking about countries but zai=at when talking about buildings?
- 511
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
I put the correct answer and it said it was wrong. It matched with the answer.
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.
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
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"
I said, "Your older sister is over at the restaurant" and it said. NOT CORRECT
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.
Yeah I paste the word "restaurant" in these translations so I won't spell it wrong
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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
