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"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
I have to defend my hometown of Pittsburgh and say "yenz" should also be accepted.
What would be wrong by translating it into "All of you are American, right?" ?
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.
I think so too, though another person commented "your translation is missing 都 though, so I could understand it being wrong." I dunno Chinese well enough so I'll abide by that judgement.
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.
You are all American, right? Should be approved too. "guys" isn't necessary for it to be correct.
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.
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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.
I put ", correct?" and the end and I got it wrong. I blame the government.
It's the way it's spoken by over 100 million people. So, it really should.
"you guys are american, right?" was marked correct for me. july 2018.
If it's plural, the word "it"sounds wrong. "It's American, isn't it?(maybe referring to a native American bird or animal) " She is American, isn't she?" or "She is American , isn't that right?" The last sounds slightly emphatic.
It said, "You are Americans, right?" is wrong. That is proper because "You" by itself it plural. then it said "You are allAmericans, right?" was correct. (And no I did not miss a space typing that).
I said this too :( American and Americans when referring to multiple people shouldn't make a difference. In fact, pluralising some words like Britishes wouldn't be correct lol.
I wrote "You're both American, right?" and got the wrong answer as I didn't add S to American. In the UK we'd usually say it the way I wrote it so I think this should be changed.
The only thing I left out was the s at the end of American and it counted it wrong... it even sais the same translation here as I wrote!!
I said "Are you guys all from the USA" and it said I got it wrong and then corrected it to "Are you guys all from the US"
Well I did you are all guys American right instead of you guys are all American right and I failed in skip the level challenge because of this...
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I wrote: "All you guys are Americans, right?" This was marked as wrong even though it is linguistically correct, but apparently not compatible with your 'memorized' format. That attitude is not conducive to my enjoyment of learning Chinese!
I submitted this flag: I am a certified English editor. Your alternative answer, "You are all American" is not a correct translation because that English sentence means, "You [singular] are completely American." Your alternative English answer does not mean, "All of you are Americans."
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If you use the noun 'American' (an American person), then it takes the plural ending "You are all Americans", like you say. If you use the adjective "American", then there's no need: "These people are American", just like "These people are happy". It is a correct usage. You're right that there's a second meaning to "all American" as in "completely American". That usage gets a hyphen when qualifying a noun: "It is an all-American movie".
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.
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I'm sorry, but as an Australian, finishing a question with "..., right?" sounds disgusting. We just don't say that. It's such an American way of asking a question. In this case : "You are all American, aren't you?" would be more natural. If we're going force everyone to speak American, how about "All of y'all are American, right?".... ugh
if 都 means "all" then why the hell is "you are american right?" accepted? shouldnt it be wrong?
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?
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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.
You are all American, correct?
Seems to be the more apt translation here... (or at least should be accepted).
