"What is the most famous animal in China?"
Translation:中国的什么动物最有名？
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The Chinese literally translates to "Which Chinese animal is most famous?" - I know that substantially it's the same thing, but the phrasing is not 100% the same. I think perhaps 中国最有名的动物是什么? better fits the English.
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That's correct too; colloquially the given one is acceptable, it's like asking you to fill in the blanks at （什么动物）.
I struggled to put this sentence together without a 在 and 是, can someone help me out here?
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I'll give it a shot: it's like asking you to fill in the blanks at （什么动物）, which isn't very satisfactory because this is a rather colloquial question, even without the 的.
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中国什么动物最有名is better than 中国的什么动物最有名。 中国的什么动物最有名should be "what is the most famous Chinese animal".
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No, they mean the same thing. The given one is more colloquial, so I agree that it's more accurate without the 的.
The most infamous animal in this Chinese tree is the nefarious Green Mocking Owl; most times it doesn't seem to give a hoot!
