"我的朋友都喜欢跳舞。"
Translation:All of my friends like dancing.
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There is no great difference in meaning between "All of my friends like dancing" and "My friends all like dancing", just a difference in emphasis. I think both are reasonable translations of 我的朋友都喜欢跳舞
As others have pointed out, perhaps there should be some other sentence structures accepted. For example: "My friends all like to dance" was marked as incorrect.
Agreed and reported. This answer is still not accepted three months later.
It should give some options for the structure of the sentence I think. All my friends like dancing and My friends all like dancing shouldn't be marked incorrect for "using the wrong word."
Can't this also be "My friends both like dancing" instead of "All my friends like dancing." ?
Seems unclear because there is no context and it could be either
都 is required and doesn't mean both in the same way. It's simply Chinese's way of showing that both people did the action, but it's not emphasizing both.
This sentence written without 都 would be incorrect. It's kind of like 很 in that it's required but it lacks a large amount of meaning.
Hey thanks for your reply, but I'm not suggesting to remove 都.
I'm suggesting that 我的朋友都喜欢跳舞 has two meanings because there isn't enough context. It doesn't say how many friends. So it could mean two friends (both) or many friends (all). 我的朋友都喜欢跳舞 can mean:
Also, both 1 and 2 have two variations if you change the word order.
- My friends both like dancing // Both my friends like dancing.
- My friends all like dancing // All my friends like dancing.
I think the most literal translation would be "My friends all like dancing." That doesn't mean it's the only translation, nor is it the most accurate. However, when I hear 都 without a number of people, I assume it automatically just means "all." "Both" isn't wrong, but I'd still say "all" as it just makes more sense.
Also, the word order SHOULDN'T matter, but I got the answer wrong because of it.
Me too. I used "My friends all like dancing." but is insisted that the sentence should be, "All my friends like dancing."
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This is probably understood as "all" more often because you'd use 俩 instead, which exclusively means "both."
It forced me to write "all me friends," which is obviously wrong, with the words from the word bank. Anyone else with that issue?
All my freaks love to shake their booty.. left out of the acceptable translations, sue Duo!!
"My friends all like to dance" seems like it could be an accurate translation depending on the context, however there is no helper verb that indicates the friends actually like doing the action. For example they could like watching people dance, but not like doing it themselves.
In the English translation above "to" adds this additional meaning to "dance".
Now I'm not arguing about the validity of the translation, but is there a Chinese equivalent, or does the verb 喜欢 imply the doing themselves?