"I don't want to work today."
Translation:我今天不想工作。
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In this case, 要 would sound more like "I don't need to go to work today," where as 想 is definitely "I don't want to go to work today."
I seriously feel like just a monkey sometimes on here repeating exactly how they want me to say it, it doesn't give you much liberty even though it means the same thing.
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上班 - to start a work shift / go to work (verb) -- usually at a specific time or place
工作 - a job (noun) / the activity of doing work (verb)
我的工作 - My job
我工作 - I'm working
我上班 - I start work
我去上班 - I go to (start) work / I'm going to work
Using 去 has the meaning of changing physical locations. So you would use the last one if you needed to travel to another location to start your work (e.g. leaving home for an office or factory).
From what I've gathered, 上班 seems to refer to the act of working, while 工作 refers to the concept of work itself (job). I am working: 我在上班. I am at work: 我在工作.
Then this sentence could be translated as 'I don't want a job today.' Correct me if I am wrong....
工 (gong) = work/skill
作 (zuò) = to do/
工作 = to do work = to work
Some other words in this lesson:
锻 (duàn) = to forge/to discipline
炼 (liàn) = to refine/to smelt/to train
锻炼 (duànliàn) = to work out
开 (kāi) = to open/to start/to turn on
始 (shǐ) = to begin/to start
开始 (kāishǐ) = to start
The lesson for this module states the following:
"You’ve already seen that 不要 (bú yào) can mean that someone either doesn’t want something or doesn’t want to do something (for example, 他不要牛奶). But 不要 is also used a lot to tell someone not to do something. "
So, of course, for this question I answered "我今天不要工作" and was marked wrong. Thanks Duolingo.
今天我不想工作 should also be an acceptable answer, especially since right before this question there's the one about going to the restaurant tomorrow to eat lamb. In that question 明天 can come at the start of the sentence and is counted as correct. This is consistent.
"我不想今天工作。" was wrong. I got this at Google Translation to see what DL says. I first had the same answer as DL has, but when I saw "我不想今天工作。" at Google Translation, I was confused because time expression should immediately follow the subject. I'm not saying DL answer is wrong. I just want to know if Google Translation-like, "SUBJECT +不想 + TIME + VERB" is wrong or acceptable.
