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- "I am good today."
"I am good today."
Translation:我今天很好。
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I got marked wrong for not having hun4 in there. Did I translate too literally (I today good)? Does saying you are good need the qualifier of "very"?
Thanks in advance.
很 does not really mean "very." It's kind of just used to indicate that an adjective is next. There are more advanced ways to say "very" that actually mean "very," but using 很 before an adjective is just the standard basic grammar structure. It confused me too when I first learned it. I hope this helps.
Duolingo is shallow in teaching really, it only teaches vocabulary not grammar rules and tone changes and things like that
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I personally used the forums till this day even if i get it right i just check it to learn something about the language. It strongly works.
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It helped big time i was just as confused Is the other word for very feng [ma] Xie xie ni wo de lao shi
I think you always have to have a word like hen3 or ye3 to connect the adjective to the thing you wanna describe. Even though it literally translates to: I today very good. They perceive it as I today good.
很 here doesn't mean 'very'. It's just showing the connection between the noun and the adjective. So I think it have to be here
I think the "very" character also has second function as verb "is" in some cases, though not 100% sure
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我今天很好。vs 今天我很好。 I chose the latter and was marked correct but it suggested the former as the better translation. Is there a connotation difference in where the adverb today is located?
It's just a preference that tends to make slightly more sense: Think 'I am well today' vs 'Today, I am well'. Both are correct but I would tend to use the first
I'm a native chinese speaker, fluent at speaking but using duolingo to relearn all the characters I forgot. Honestly, I don't think the 很 is necessary here and 我今天好 sounds natural and should be accepted.
Agree about modifier comment. 好 is good, 很好 is very good. The only thing I can say about this is that in my 2.5 years of college Chinese (a long time ago) I remember that culturally 很好 came pretty much as a stock phrase together, no one said 好without 很 in this context. Is this a grammar/semantics issue or a linguistic/cultural issue? I have never heard a Chinese person say, 我今天好. However, I have said 我好 before to Chinese colleagues (programmers, doctors, no professional grammarians), who knew I was trying to improve my Mandarin and they did not correct me.
That being said, 很 is very. It is used as very in other structures, so the commenter that said 很 is not very, is very wrong. It is not a connector. It is an adverb.
My Chinese dictionary says: 很 - (adverb of degree) quite, very, awfully.
Before you make linguistic claims you should check your assumptions with data before posting them, then post your resource. Now here is an smiley emoticon to take the sting out of my comment. :)
I've lived in Taiwan, and I've never heard any one day 'hen hao' instead of 'hao' in this situation. I understand that this is what Duolingo has decided is correct, but it seems to be arbitrary.
I would say anything, but it costs me hearts, which is frustrating to lose hearts do to these types of 'errors'.
That is false. 很 does mean 'very'. All adjectives in Chinese can be said with just the subject if it is to describe the subject. That is why you wouldn't say "我是好。" Rather, it would simply be 我好。
..in standard English. They appear to be interchangable in US English as a response to the "how are you" question.
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Both should be accepted as both are in common use, but the model answer should be "well". Sigh.
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A better English rendering would be "I am fine today" or "I am well today". Good can have a moral connotation.
I'm a beginner learner, but it seems words to indicate the time are typically put at or near the start of sentences and not the end. In this case, both wo jintian hun hao and jintian wo hun hao are ok, but not wo hun hao jintian.
Just like in English you can say today I'm fine and I'm fine today, but not I'm today fine or I today am fine. The order matters but does not follow the same rules in different languages.
Hope it helps!
Yes I would say it is wrong. Adverbs (and any other adverbial expressions describing the verb) normally come before the verb.
I don't understand the sentence order in chinese, so that makes me curious how the words will be aranged in a sentence, when they are being translated from English?
Duolingo doesn't teach the tone change rules When a third tone is after another third tone, it changes to a half-third tone which is 好 (hào)
As Nyaeay and Dmitrievdv mention below, 很 works in this case as a connector between the subject and an adjective verb. Nevertheless,
"我今天好" should also be correct. If I am not wrong, that would mean something like "Today I am (indeed) good" (as opposed to other recent time when I was not so good). But still valid.
