"我现在非常渴！"

Translation: I am very thirsty now!

[Janus159341]

Feichang is usually translated as "extremely," so this should be preferable to "very," although both are probably fine to use to express the meaning.

[robosquiggles]

I agree. I always learned that 非常 meant "extremely" but was marked wrong here.

[codewritertom]

"I am very thirsty right now" is also a correct answer, please add to your answer database.

[LeChatParle]

Just FYI, you have to report the sentence to get them to add anything. They won't get notified of this comment.

[Rk5I3]

Isn't that 正在?

[Gabrielle145359]

正在 is for action verbs in the process of happenING right now.
现在 is the time word meaning "now" (the present moment).
渴 is an adjective, not an action verb, so it can't be modified by 正在.

[pt321]

In other cases, if only write "now", the exercise is wrong and it's the exactly same Chinese word and context

[sovanyio]

"I am now extremely thirsty" rejected

[DaveLommen]

That would be awkward English, at best. "I am extremely thirsty now" should be accepted, though.

[clwebb]

I agree, and that was my answer.

[robosquiggles]

Me too

[Gabrielle145359]

I would translate your sentence as 我现在非常渴了。 This is because I read "I am now X" to mean that you are are emphasizing that X is a new situation. You create the same emphasis in Chinese by putting the 了 at the end.

[paul03datura]

I am extremely thirsty now

[Karoliina765050]

非常 translates as 'extremely', so 'I am extremely thirsty' should be accepted.

[TheGin04]

You don't have to say now in english.

[DaveLommen]

You do. Otherwise, "xian zai" should be omitted in Chinese as well.

[Geimle]

I'm trying to find the rule of when to start with the time/adverb and when to start with the pronoun. English isn't picky. My sense of Chinese is that it isn't as picky as Duo presents but I could be wrong about that.

[Gabrielle145359]

They are interchangable in most sentence structures, although they may give slightly different emphases.