"你们都是美国人，对吗？"
Translation:You are all American, right?
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The English translation needs to be improved. There are multiple ways to say the same sentance. Using "guys" isnt necessary at all here
My translation as "Are you all American" was corrected to " Americans ". The first way should have been accepted, I think
Did the same, it doesn't make sense to add the 's' onto these things. You couldn't say you guys are all Britishes, or Chineses for example.
"American" is an adjective and also a noun, so when functioning as a noun it needs to be plural in this context. "British" and "Chinese" are only adjectives so they cannot have a plural form.
Which means that both 'American' and 'Americans' should be accepted, as we can use the word adjectivally or nominally and they mean the same.
There is actually a Chinese character for all, so it is a way to not get them confused
If I said, "You are all American, right?", it should be marked as correct.
"Both" assumes that there are only 2 people. "All" covers more than 2.
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Since we can't determine how many people are being addressed (just that it's more than one), "both" should be accepted.
That's the of it, yes, but it leaves out "all". The speaker presumably wants to make sure that every single person in the group is an American, and Duolingo wants to make sure you caught that.
I agree, it's incorrect for it to say there's a typo when entering English if you use you're because you're is the contraction of you are so they're grammatically equivalent
I miss it every time because I put, "You guys all are american, right?" and not, "You guys are all american, right?" Kind of annoying.
If you're a native English speaker, then so be it. But if you're not, I would say that "You guys all are American, right?" doesn't sound natural to me.
if 都 means "all" then why the hell is "you are american right?" accepted? shouldnt it be wrong?
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你们都是美国人， 对吗 Oh please experts what is wrong with this? I did copy it before I checked and pasted here exactly.
I wish they would keep your answer on screen when they tell you you are wrong, then I would know why. I think I got it wrong because I put "aren't you?" instead of "right?" That would surely be OK.
I would say you would translate it as "both" when there are only two referred to, but "all" for any number of people or things above that. They are both English = there are only two people , they are all English,when there are more. I think dou would apply in both situations.
I got a typo indication due to using you're instead of you are. What's the difference? Aren't they the same?
This question should be improved. As an english speaker I dont find the translation as a whole grammatically correct. This is because i would say it differently. Alternatives could be as follows. (NB. learning mando) Are you all american ? You are all american, is that right ?
I can't tell why I'm not getting this one right. I typed out 你们都是美国人，对吗？-- and it looks the same to me. Am I missing something?
You are all American, right? Changed it to - How are all American, right@
