"你吃猪肉还是鸡肉？"
Translation:Do you eat pork or chicken?
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你想吃 should be used instead of 你吃。 你吃 will make it seem like you are asking do you eat instead of do you want to eat. 想 will tell us that it is whether you want to eat and not that we have to eat/we do eat. I hope you understood what I am trying to say.
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Actually it can be understood, but a bit rude - and Duo's replies often tend to be rude.
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I agree. I am confused as to how "do you want to eat..." Is a correct response. Perhaps it is implied.
Shouldn't be translated as "do you want to eat..." since 想 or equivalent is not stated. It should just be "do you eat...".
I think it can mean this. Possibly you would say 你在吃猪肉还是鸡肉？to emphasise that it is happening right now, but in other questions with similar sentences it has both meanings.
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The use of "还是" seems to suggest that an either-or choice is preferred (i.e. pick one of the two); could "或者" (huòzhě) be used to ask about whether the speaker is OK with either (i.e. both are available)?
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Just an answer with native instinct.
I would not use 或者 in this sentence. 还是 probably is about making a conscious, exhaustive choice. 或者 is just listing available options serially.
e.g. 主菜是猪肉或者鸡肉。您选猪肉还是鸡肉？
The main dish is pork or chicken. Would you choose pork or chicken?
In both of these sentences 或者 还是 are not interchangeable.
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Often so, but it is a bit arbitrary to say that. 还是 can be used in an affirmative sentence.
but where is the wanting element here? it's all about choice:do you eat pork or chicken. Duolingo should accept also this translation
i know the order is wrong but i have a bad short term memory, but why doesn't "do you eat chicken or pork?" work too?
Every time I try to do this problem and type in Do you eat Chicken or pork it marks my answer wrong. It happens with other problems too.
do you eat pig or chicken? rejected and reported.. as if chicken is chicken and pork isn't pig?
No character for 'would like'? If I was on an airline, I would only tune in to the pork or chicken option, so in context, I could understand the meaning, but if I was being tested in an exam, I would fail.
The fact that they haven't defined tense implies (to me) that it is not in the past. You would use 了 to show that an action has been completed.
I put in "Do you eat chicken or pork?" and they didn't accept it. It should be right either way.
