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"你们是学生吗？"
Translation:Are you students?
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An alternative translation should most definitely be "Are you all students?" or "You all are students?"
Umm now that's the only answer that takes. I feel like 'you guys' are rather more accurate
Yeah, it's a shame they picked on that particular form though. "You folks", "you people", etc. .. I should make a list :o)
Duo answer checking simply doesn't consider punctuation, and likely as a result generally requires that English questions be formulated with interrogative word order.
Because it is not asking you to translate "You are all students?", I think.
It does, and Chinese is not that simple. It means 'guys' as a plural 'you.'
I find Chinese rather simple grammatically... at least compared to Turkish. Turkish grammar and aggulation is a living nightmare...
I'm from Pittsburgh, so I put "Are 'yins' students?" It would mean the world if we could get this accepted! lol
I put the word "interrogative" in my answer because I thought duo wanted me to show that I knew the grammar
I'd actually quite like this to be adopted over here, because it is admittedly confusing to have no regular "second person plural".
Efectivamente, no veo "都 dōu" por ninguna parte. De hecho, creo que "are you students" debería ser la única respuesta correcta.
This place seems pretty disorganized if they keep asking people if they are students or not
It is really confusing me. How do you really know when the question like that comes,and I have to translate,is it we or you
The meaning of that is different than that of the answer: it's more formal and also not usually the way you say it with proper grammar.
Why not "Are they/we students?" is acceptable?. I'm a native speaker of Spanish and ni men stands for "Nosotros/Ellos". I have got confused when trying to translate Chinesse into English. :-)
I don't think it means either nosotros or ellos. I think it means ustedes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BD%A0%E5%80%91
En este caso es ustedes, no nosotros. In this case is you (plural), not we.
"你们" is second person plural in Chinese. "You guys" is second person plural in English.
It's really only 2pp in American*.
*Should be allowed, just as the the English forms should be.
Only yes-no questions. Use ma to turn a statement into the corresponding yes-no question, equivalent to raising your pitch at the end of a sentence in English.
Wouldnt Are all of you students be another answer that would work? It counted it as wrong
why can't I say Are they students? But when I do it the other way, it tells me to say Are they students?
28 Jul 2019; app version: the audio simply says "mē" (pronouncing only one character)
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Duolingo is confusing me. The context is very important in this questions. Could have sworn I just used "ni men chi ma?" for "are you eating? So how would you ask 3 people right in front of you? If they are all eating?
I'm not sure how "Are you all students?", or "Are they students?" is not accepted. Doesn't 们 in Chinese indicate multiple of something, i.e. 你们 is to refer to multiple people, whilst 你 refers to a singular person?
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There is no separate character for "all" here. The problem is with English - standard English only has one word for "you" whether it is singular or plural. However, the Mandarin here uses 你们 rather than just 你, which means that it is a plural "you". Using "all" is an attempt to show this - but the correct answer can simply be "you".
The answer written is grammatically incorrect (in English). It should either say "Are they students?" Or "Are you a student?" based on singular-plural subject-verb agreement/conjugation.
Yes. I wrote the chinese sentence in and it told me it meant "Are you students?"
Are you all students Or Are you a student Or Are they students.
I guess it should be any of these.... It's a bit confusing with the introduction of 'ta' .... Please do clarify this.
