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"他是学生，你呢？"
Translation:He is a student, what about you?
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Traditional characters: 他是學生，你呢？(学 share the same form in simplified Chinese and Japanese.)
Not wrong. but less accurate, Since 'are you?' might imply 'what are you?' since it will be '你是吗?' 'ni shi ma?' or 'are you a student too?' (ni ye xuesheng ma?你也学生吗?) . But 'ni ne' refers too 'if you?'/'what about you'， 呢 usually refers to condition.
"他" means "he/him" and "她" means "she/her". You can use either "他們" or "她們" for they/them.
Some note, any group (with majority female) with at least one male will be written as 他们 or 他們. but all female is 她们。
The sound can be. But if you wrote it, that would be he/him. I think 他 has the same sound as 她。
Not wrong. but less accurate, Since 'are you?' might imply 'are you a student too?'. But 'ni ne' refers too 'if you?'.
I'm still very confused when to use 是. Can someone explain why sometimes you don't use it even when there is a 'to be' in the sentence
Generally speaking, 是 is used before nouns (我是学生）while 很 is used before adjectives (我很高兴）. Of course, there are exceptions, but this is the basic rule that our teacher taught us in Chinese 1
Using shi是 is like linking some subject to another object ex. you are a student.
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In Chinese, the analogous character/word to the English verb "to be" is "是", pronounced "shì".
I put 'he is a student, and you?' and it was accepted as correct. However in a previous similar question I answered 'I am a student, and you?' but was marked as incorrect. No consistency.
Keep in mind, this may help others as I have written it down on my sheets, that 他 can mean He/His or like used in this sentence, "He is a student, what about you?", It just helps me to remember that.
does anyone else hear "xue she"? is the n rempved here or should it be more audable?
Is saying how about you vs what about you not the same in Chinese? If not, I got marked wrong for doing the former
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You can't without the context. In fact, there was only 他 (gender-neutral). 她 didn't mean "she" but was repurposed to mean "she" to make translating non-Chinese text.
Why can't I use "He is a student, and you?" implying "and you, who are you?" (I'm all for less typing in English...)
Confused with the words shēng, xué and shí since the app says it all means student.
I am Dutch. So sorry that I make a mistake in English and my Chinese is good.... I use een instead of a.... een is Dutch. Two languages...
Excuse me i wrote how about you and it was wrong What is the difference
If ta is he and she, how do you tell the difference?. I keep choosing the wrong one.
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You can't tell whether 他 is "he" or "she without the context. However, 他 is often used as "he." I don't know whether Duolingo mis-thinks of the common usage as a rule or not.
Look up the pronunciation if you aren't sure. these are bots and they are usually incorrect, especially how choppy they pronounce the sentence.
why do I need the article "a"? if it were the phrase "他是一名学生。。。" the phrase would be "He is a student..." but the phrase is "他是学生。。。" that in english is "He is student..."
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The likely reason for the article "a" is that it wouldn't be grammatically correct in English to say "He is student...". Keep in mind that Chinese grammar rules aren't always the same as English grammar rules; it's impossible to always directly translate from Chinese and still get a grammatically correct sentence in English.
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"ta" can mean he (他 ), she (她 ), or it (它 ). This shows you why you need to learn to recognize the characters. Many of the pinyin words have multiple meanings all represented by different characters. Similarly, pinyin words' meanings and characters change according to the tone used. Not an easy language to learn, but an interesting one.
no, 他 and 她 are different. They only have context to go based off if you have no characters, but here there are characters to differentiate.
