"我有弟弟，也有妹妹。"
Translation:I have a younger brother and also a younger sister.
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There is no "and"in the sentence. There is a comma instead of "and". Therefore the answer should be accepted without the conjunction.
That doesn't work very well in English. You can say ‘I have a little brother —also a little sister.’ as if it were an afterthought, but if you're saying it all at once, then you'd have to include ‘and’. Or at least, it would sound strange to me if you didn't (as if you momentarily forgot about your sister!).
I think its more important that the answers are closer to a transliteration as opposed to an actual translation into proper English. Not every language follows the syntactic structure of "proper English" and it feel like trying to mangle the answers is just going to make learning the language more difficult.
Totally agree as a World Language teacher. The language is understood without the ackwardness of trying to manage "proper" English.
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Lo puse sin and y me lo dio como error y me lo rectifico con and. Esto es un fallo de programa que me ha costado 100 puntos
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Finally! After several tries, I used "I have a younger brother and a younger sister" It worked
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Finally got it correct. "I have a younger brother and a younger sister". ActuMally, it doesn't seem to nake sense given how the characters are written, but hey, not going to argue with duo! .
If you feel your answer was correct, you should report it as commenting doesn't send a report to the course creators.
But I disagree that that should be correct because 也 means "too"
I'm very sorry to say this but, I think that 也 means too, and, or also.So, I sort of think that the answer is correct.
It is correct, but you can also say "i have a younger brother and a younger sister." As well.
I wrote a similar answer: "I have a younger brother, also I have a younger sister." And my answer was marked incorrect as well. Perhaps it is because my answer was not great English, not sure.
Your answer is correct. Both "and" and "also" aren't needed in English. And with a comma before or also with a semicolon; they are both addition words.
In Chinese, the use of the comma and 也 separates the brother and sister into two different clauses. It puts more space, literally and conceptually, between them than a two item list would. I agree with Duo's distinction on the English here.
我有弟弟，也有妹妹。 "I have a younger brother, and also a younger sister."
我有弟弟和妹妹。 or 我有弟弟、妹妹。(in no particular order) "I have a younger brother and a younger sister." or "I have a younger brother and sister."
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I think the problem is originated from the Chinese sentences needs a word "AND/和" in between. Without that the Chinese sentences sound strange to me.
Shouldn't "我有弟弟，也有妹妹" be "i have a younger brother, also a younger sister" without the "and"? Wouldn't you need a "和" (hē) for "and" for the above translation?
和 and 也 are used in separate grammatical instances. I don't think they are ever used together.
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At the level at which I am working; I would agree with Gabrielle. That is not to say that at some point in future study there may be room for other alternatives. I have certainly witnessed significant grammatical differences at my/our level.
Translation: I have a younger brother and a younger sister is correct but it says it's not correct.
As it is, the Chinese sentence should translate to I have younger brothers and sisters. Since the singular and plural form of 弟弟/妹妹 are the same, if you want to indicate one, then you need to add一个 in front of each 弟弟 and 妹妹.
I think it is more correct to say that the Chinese does not indicate singularity or plurality all. It could just as easily mean either. However, when translating into English, we need to choose whether to use singular or plural form. Duo should accept both.
I said "I have a younger brother and a younger sister, as well" and was marked wrong...
I am offered the solution "I have younger brotherS and also a sister". Why is it that (younger) brother is offered as plural here, but not sister? I used plural for both, "I have younger brothers and also sisters". (I was counting on my answer being wrong, but I can't see the logic of the given solution). Can anyone help? Thanks!
The system said this is a correct solution:
"I have a younger brother also have a younger sister, too."
The English sentence has both 'also' and 'too' - that is called a tautology (one of those words is superfluous). Further, the grammar of the sentence is incorrect. 'I have a younger brother, and a younger sister, too.' is correct English. Also 'I have a younger brother, and a younger sister as well.' is correct. 'I have a younger brother, as well as a younger sister.' and 'I have a younger brother, and a younger sister.'.
The solution at the top of this page: "I have a younger brother and a younger sister, too." is ok, but could be improved too, by adding a comma after "brother": "I have a younger brother, and a younger sister, too."
If my answer is wrong how do you distinguish between plural for younger sisters and younger brothers?
From what I've learnt, there is no plural. The nouns are both plural and singular. If you want to pluralise you need to be specific, like 五个妹妹 is five sisters. Otherwise it doesn't seem to matter.
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The box that contains the other "younger" option never appeared on my portal. Who else had this issue?
I notice that here again the male (brother)is mentioned before the sister. Is this the usual pattern?
DiDi is younger brother and Gege is older brother yet you say the answer is younger brother instead of older brother. I'm confused.
"I have a younger brother and a younger sister" accepted 20190930.
However, Duolingo offers another translation:
"I have a younger brother and also a younger sister."
The use of "and also" seems strange to me. Between the two, the "and" is clearly needed but the "also" seems superfluous and awkward.
I have a younger brother, I also have a younger sister.
this answer was not accepted; but I would say in the "correct" answer the "I" is missing
Chinese grammer does not show "and" only "also" hard to know for english
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You could replying conversation about having brothers saying that you have a didi also you have a meimei
I have a younger brother and also have a younger sister ? can this be correct ?
There is not mentioned he in the sentence that is why i didn't put and in my translation.
There is no "and 和", why is my answer is incorrect? I am so tired, i am not even speak english, i speak russian. Every time i understand all that is written on chinese, but i always do mistakes in english translation -_-... add chinese on russian platform please
This question is completely glitched. It won't let me select half the words so I'm forced to get it wrong to move on.
No AND in the sentence. Though AND (in Chinese "he") is introduced in this lesson. Thus it is very stupid to assume the English translation without AND is incorrect. Give you 1 star rating until you correct this.
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I put i have a younger brother and sister. They corrected me to '' i have a younger brother and a younger sister''
Should be accepted without the "and" because there is no喝 in the words provided
I agree with Naasei. This is not a correct translation Duolingo. Very confusing.
The same a question. But the under is cant use 和, and at this is have? " "'and also...
I think the translation with "and" is proper English while without "and" it sounds weird, but anyway most times before it was wrong to add a "and" while there was only a comma in Chinese. That's inconsistent and really annoying because it was a 50/50 chance to lose a heart... That's not fun!
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Is there an umbrella term for both? Such as in english we have "sibling", is there an equivalent or is it just more specific?
I accidently missed the "a" in the sentence, I obviously knew what I was saying, this shouldn't be marked wrong because it doesn't significantly hinder understanding.
I don't understand before bi translate with "and" and it wrong, when i translate without "and" it wrong again, and the answer suddenly used "and" i Don't get it,
"I have a little brother also have a little sister." Is not correct English. The correct answer should be "I have a younger brother and have a younger sister"
I had younger sister in my answer [twice] and was marked wrong & told it was sisters. Why?
Yeehaw my dudes I wrote younger sister first and got it wrong cause i dont think my answers through. alsoiforgotthe'also' :D
