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- "每星期五我踢两个小时的足球。"
"每星期五我踢两个小时的足球。"
Translation:I play soccer for two hours every Friday.
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My audio sounds like "pi" too! I reported it as the audio sounding incorrect.
10 months later and this still hasn't been fixed, I am now the big sad :(((((((((
Football. Only americans insist on calling it 'soccer'. Its football worldwide otherwise.
Do you know that the English coined the term "soccer"? It came from "association" which was shortened to 'soc' which turned into 'soccer.' So, yes, Americans call it 'soccer,' but Americans got the term from the English!
I don't think this sentence sounds natural in Chinese... In this sentence, "Every Friday I play two hours' football" literally, right? I don't know why 的 is there...
when you want to express the duration of a verb + object pair you put the time duration + 的 in between the verb and the object： V + duration + 的 + O. You can also put a 了 after the first verb in the verb + object pair to indicate past tense.
examples: I eat dinner for 3 hours everyday = 我每天吃三个小时的晚饭。 I ate dinner for 3 hours yesterday = 我昨天吃了三个小时的晚饭。
In this sentence structure the time works as a description of the object. Description + 的 + Object.
Like: 我喜歡我媽媽做的蛋糕。
Yea, time works weird in Chinese. Or just different.
In having trouble with the sentence order here and i think i saw it in another problem. It seems like the sentence is structured TSVTO. Why is there a time after the verb 踢 with no subject???
我 is the subject. It can take some getting used to but many Verb-object verbs can be split up with time words in between. In this case, 踢 is the verb and 足球 is the object
"Every Friday I would play soccer for 2 hours" should have been accepted
I play FOOTBALL during two hours every Friday. Was not accepted...
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But doesn't the Chinese sentence mean that you actually play it FOR two hours whereas with your sentence the reader doesn't know the duration, you might only play five minutes DURING those two hours...
I believe that "每星期五" (just like 每天) refers to an ongoing thing. So the assumption is present tense.
We Chinese distinguish between them.
Cuju or 蹴鞠 is an extinct game played in ancient China.
Thank FIFA for recognizing it as the earliest form of football.
But they are completely different games despite the fact that they both involve kicking a ball with your feet.
Brits invented the damn modern game of football independently.
Apparently replacing "two" with "2" in this question is considered a wrong answer
"Every Friday I play soccer for two hours" is not a correct answer, are you kidding me?
