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"你们明天早上九点半在哪儿？"
Translation:Where will you be at 9:30 tomorrow morning?
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Word to word translation helps if you want to understand the way to construct a foreign language and when you want to learn new words. But of course it could make strange sentences and sound weird in the language of the translation. I think Duo Lingo often tries to compromise between good translations and literal translations: As close to word to word translation as possible without sounding too weird or hard to understand. As long as Duo aims to accept a wide range of alternative accepted answers for translations, should't that be OK with most people?
No need for 'morning' once 'am' has been specified. Not good enough for Duo, however. >:(
09:30 am = 09:30 after midnight = 09:30 in the morning. The first version is widely utilized in English speaking countries.
oh yeah... i didn't even think about it but we almost never say "9 in the morning" ...9am is the only normal way to say it. if someone says "9 in the morning" it's emphasizing MORNING (usually because the person is angry) example- i had to wake up at 9 IN THE MORNING to go to work today -----------------------all other forms should just be 9am.
Not where I'm from. People say in the morning/at night all the time. AM/PM isn't that common in verbal speech here
It is July 2019 now and they did NOT accept. "where are you" . I reported it
Probably because we're still not strictly addressing the future tense. Wants us to use present tense so as to not avoid confusion further down the line.
Yeah, but it's not like they've ever cared about using strict translations to prevent confusion before
lol thats not make sense.. how can we know where it is happen in the future xD
Pinyin:
Nǐmen míngtiān zǎoshang jiǔ diǎn bàn zài nǎ'er
-你们----明天-----早上----九--点--半--在--哪儿
Thank you! For a beginner like me such a long sentence without pinyin was too difficult
Pinyin (拼音) is a way to phonetically write Chinese using the Latin alphabet. I could not learn Chinese without it.
I wish there was a speed setting when reading the sentence! I'm struggling to keep up with the whole sentence being read so quickly :|
I split the sentence and listen the pieces in google translate. Then it's easier to follow the whole sentence after that.
For me, this sentence is too complicated for beginners (1st part of the Duolingo course) I teach English and I definitely wouldn't teach such a long sentence to my beginner students
@salemsharak There's an chrome add-on called Duolingo 中文 that often includes a slow-read option for duolingo chinese.
"Where are you at 930 AM tomorrow?" should be correct. There's only one 930 AM and it is in the morning.
I also think, this should be accepted. I hab "where are you at 9:30 tomorrow morning" and that was incorrect as well
Is it grammatically correct to ask about the future using the present simple (where are you tomorrow)?
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"Where will you all be at 9:30 am tomorrow?" is acceptable and a better translation than the given one.
The sentence uses plural "你们" but didn't accept my answer "Where are you all going to be at 9:30 tomorrow morning?"
'Where are you tomorrow morning at 9:30?' seems like a correct translation to me, but I get the comment that there is a typo in my answer? Anyone can clarify?
guys, this really needs to accept more answers. Chinese grammar is like totally flipped english and it's very difficult for beginners to piece it together from end of the sentence all the way to the start. Saying "Where will you be at 9:30am tomorrow?" is THE MOST natural way to say this sentence in english, yet it's not accepted.
I don't know why you complain that much. It is a common phrase among time travelers!
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"Where are you guys going to be at 9:30 tomorrow morning" is MUCH better, but is marked wrong. First, it's 你们, so "you guys" is better than "you", second, tomorrow morning is in the FUTURE, so saying "where ARE you" is awkward, even incorrect. Where "will you be" or "Where are you GOING TO BE" is far better. It's marked wrong, however.
I know that Duolingo marks future tense as wrong so as to not mix up the words and context, but how would "Where are you going to be tomorrow morning at 9.30?" be?
If there is any native speaker around, could you add the future into the phrase?
Should'nt this be plural?
"Where are you tomorrow at..."
This was accepted, however, I think it is incorrect.
In formal, modern, standard English, "you are" is used for both singular and plural second person. They are the same. I see Duo often says "you all are" or "you guys are," for the plural but these are informal forms used mainly in the southern region of the United States.
I would never say Where are you tomorrow. I would use the future tense and say Where will you be?
Question to Duolingo "Englishmen": what is the difference between "tomorrow morning at 9:30" and "at 9:30 tomorrow morning"?.
There is no difference, other than personal preference in how you like to structure the sentence. imho
This question is already answered. I cannot choose the correct answer myself.
Dear Duolingo, 在哪儿 does not mean "where" 哪儿 means "where" Sincerely, a total beginner.
Am i the only non native English speaker having MORE continuous troubles with correct English writing than understanding the meaning in chinese?
where you will be ...etc instead where will you be should have been accepted as translation! not everyone's got perfect grammar and typo exist but the phrase it s been understood anyway 100%!!we are studying chinese here NOT English
Just something interesting I realized for you to read and correct me if I am saying nonsense...
I only listened to it and replied before looking at the text so my answer was "Are you going to be there tomorrow at 9:30?"... obviously it was wrong because of the difference between 哪儿 and 那儿... correct me if I'm wrong but will there be a real difference in sound between those two in real life speech? I believe what would make the difference is that if we use 那儿 we would have to add 吗 to make it a question...? Thanks
明 is a name (meaning "bright"), whereas the word, pronounced identically, for "name" is 名. The word 明天 literally means, afaict, "bright sky". Or do you mean something different?
Sorry, why can't we type it the way we remember it and answers to the question. As an example i typed: Where will you be at tommorrow morning 9:30?
We truly need a chinese to correct these questions, because we just randomly learn, without knowing is it correct said or not.
both my answer and the one provided as correct are grammatically incorrect in English.
I put: where are you gonna be tomorrow at 9:30. Because it's a future sentences
It didn't allow me to correct my English to make it more natural before grading it. When I started to change it, it began grading it.
where will be you tomorrow morning at 9:30 is completely acceptable!!! modify the "algorithm".
Weird. I wrote the correct sentence but with the wrong time (5:30 instead of 9:30) and it was correct. https://i.imgur.com/590N8IN.png
Duolingo mistook your error for a typo, which is something that happens occasionally.
Mới học mà cho câu dài dằng dặc như này, đã thế còn học từ tiếng Anh sang tiếng Trung, quá khó
i wrote "you guys" and it wasn't accepted? is it wrong, should i report it?
I suppose my answer "Where will you be at 9:30 a.m.?" is correct so I just reported.
From which to which language we translate? Corrcet English (not Duolingo English) sounds "Where you will be... "
"Where are you tomorrow at 9:30 in the morning" not accepted. Is this a course of Chinese or of English?
This entire lesson is a total MINEFIELD. It's completely unpredictable which answer was on the minds of the people who created this lesson.
Why is "Where will you be at 9:30 tomorrow morning" not accepted as a correct answer
This is exactly Duolingo´s translation, so I guess the reason that your translation was not accepted must be something else.
Why is "Where are you at 9:30 tomorrow morning?" not accepted since it is a near future??
他们 is the plural of 'you' but it doesn't mean 'you all'. 'You all' requires the 都 character - e.g. 他们很忙, "They are busy" versus 他们很都忙, "They are all busy".
He says it so fast, my native and Mandarin are similar in terms of tone and speed but it is still kinda hard to say sentences. My native language has three tones, im so lucky sometimes. Lets do these long sentences !
It is irritating that you are criticizing a language just for how it is. Besides, why would Chinese "words" need spaces if all of them are one character long?
Where will you be tommorow morning at 9:30...is my answer and tho being similar in meaning is wrong...duo lingo only accept its fixed answer regardless if youre right
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That was a lot of typing. I had to take a little break after this question just to recover :-P ... copy it to the clipboard in case it comes back up during this lesson. "Where will you be at 9:30 tomorrow morning?"
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I do that too and often it tells me my answer is wrong so I can paste it here and ask why.
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I need to be able to turn on listening or speaking exercises if I change my mind or accidentally touch the screen and turn them off
What in the world is wrong with this translation? "Where will you be at tomorrow morning at 9:30?" Duo doesn't accept that formulation. Am I missing some grammar rule in my native English?
It is saying that it should be "where will you be tomorrow at 9:30 am"but there is no am given in the word blank....
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It won't let me through despite typing the correct answer out word for word - which means I cant finsh this exercise! So frustrating!
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the order of words in English is not as strict as in Ma darin. Please stop teaching English and accept more versions!
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I think users should allowed to vote on the correct answer in English in a way to improve the app.
Fine idea, but the issue is that presumably we are all learning the language and it would be odd to rely on users to know the correct answer as if we are native speakers.
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Not being a native English speaker, but considering myself as being pretty fluent, your answer is just not what one would say. You would say "tomorrow morning". I have never heard "tomorrow's morning". I can "see" your thought process as you would think it is the morning of tomorrow - making it possessive - hence your tomorrow's. In fact it is a reference to the time though - when? - tomorrow morning, so it is not possessive. I hope this helps! - :)
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is it not proper english to say "where are you tomorrow morning at 9:30?" does it really need to be "will be"? i know will be is more logical when you think about it, but i always say "where are you at this future point in time", just like in dutch i say "waar ben jij op dit toekomstig tijdstip" to be fair in dutch it would sound strange to say "waar zal jij zijn op dit toekomstig tijdstip". so maybe it's just me literally translating dutch to english and it really isn't proper english.
I wrote 你们明天早上九点半在那儿 and it got rejected. How can I understand, by listening, whether it's an interrogative question (哪儿) or a positive affirmation (那儿)?
哪儿 or nǎr/nǎ r means "where." Nǎ is the third tone, an "interrogative question."
那儿 or nàr/nà r means "there." Nà is the fourth tone, a "positive affirmation.
If you're wondering what the tones are, there are four, with "a" they are ā, á, ǎ, and à. The toneless or fifth tone has no diacritic (the thing over the letter).
In the tips (https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Greeting/tips) for the Greeting 1 lesson (I think it's the first), are the tones in order and how they sound. However, the tips don't have the fifth tone. Sorry.
I hope this helped!
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What is the difference between "Where are you tomorrow" and "Where will you be." I just used different wording.
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"9.30 morning tomorrow" is marked wrong when the answer is "9.30 tomorrow morning"... like wut
The Chinese should be "你们明天早上九点半会在哪儿？" with "会" to make it the future tense instead of the present.
Right now, it translates to "Where ARE you at 9:30 tomorrow morning?" instead of "Where WILL you BE at 9:30 tomorrow morning.
... It's not correct in either language.
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Is it grammatically incorrect to say "Where are you at tomorrow morning..."? Because I know it means the exact same thing, and it's easily understood when somebody says it like that, just not sure it's grammatically correct.
It took several tries but I finally able to type out word for word exactly what they wanted
Oh, come on! "Where will you be tomorrow at 9:30" is awfully close!
I REALLY hope Duolingo can tell the difference between a mostly correct answer and one that's completely wine.
One that's completely wrong! Not wine!
Also, if you know how Duolingo treats partially correct answers, please let me know.
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I think Duolingo is paying too much attention to English grammar that it is becoming rather difficult for non-native English speaker like me, and may be for others too
"Where are you at 9:30 tomorrow morning" should be accepted. It's proper grammer for NZ English speakers.
"Where are you 9:30 tomorrow morning?" looks like correct American English to me, and I don't see anything in the Chinese requiring a word like "at". So shouldn't that be accepted as a correct translation?
Why is nimen used grammatically in this situation instead of just ni? Is it more colloquial like 'yall' in English?
Yes, in a sense, nimen is y'all (you all). Ni is you and nimen is you (plural). The great thing with Chinese is that there is no conjugation of the verbs according to the pronoun, so grammaticaly its fine, just the subject/pronoun is changed according to who someone is talking about.
你们 means you as plurar, and 你 is just singular. So the question is addressed at multiple people.
yeah, 你 - 1 你们 - 2+ no, it's not like english where you and y'all are interchangeable. If it's plural, you have to say 们。
