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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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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。
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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...
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.