"他们住在哪儿？"

Translation: Where do they live?

[Andrew-Lin]

Traditional characters: 他們住在哪兒？

[salvadorjoshua]

The "er" at the end is silent? I don't hear it.

[Elvis863585]

The 哪 "na" and the 儿 "er" make a single sound when put together: 哪儿 "nar"

[lenix.de]

if it's a component of a word like 哪 it doesn't exactly become silent but rather reduced to a sound similar to an english "r" in a word like "room"

[ThreeDollar]

I think the 儿 is optional and is part of the Beijing accent. Don't 哪里 and 哪儿 mean the same thing?

[MThoriqMalano]

Does it always have to be 住在? Is 住 alone unacceptable?

[Martin640669]

The 'zhu' means 'live' and 'zai' means 'in'

[Yomenia2]

Does 他们在住哪儿？work too?

[Janine637333]

Where do they all live?

[Janine637333]

where do they live? or where do they all live?

[GoldenSeokjin]

Where do they live.
都 is for "all". In this sentence I do not see 都.

[scsi8]

Why is the final character silent?

[AlanShezar]

It is merged with the second to last character to form the sound "na-er."

[SEGAphantom]

Doesn't "Where do they live at?" have the same meaning?

[phb2013]

Almost. Just take away "at". They live in a place/city. They live at an address.

[Lightningb602630]

Why not 他们在那里

[filixlan]

I think "ta men zhu na li" or "ta men zhu nar" are both accepted. At least in Shanghai as long as I know you don't need to use "zai"

[Elizabeth248463]

I said "They live where?" and that was wrong. Idk that just sounded more natural to me in English?

[SamantaDo]

I choose "where they live" and idk why is wrong! I think they translate how they prefer

[GoldenSeokjin]

It should be "Where do they live?".

[deactivated user]

Can anyone tell me what the 儿 is for?

[brianro3]

哪儿 together means where

[fufaiter]

Three symbols to say "where"?!

[LorenzoOrl]

In English you need five

[nckiy]

I DON'T KNOW DUO. I DON'T KNOW. PLS DON'T HURT THEM.

[Elvis863585]

Is "Where are they living?" a posible answer? And if that's not case, how would it be the translation?

[deactivated user]

Because the verb live doesn't have a progressive form (at least it wouldn't make sense to me), you either do live there or don't you can't live somewhere for 10 minutes and you don't live there anymore. (I hope I am not telling any nonsense xD)

[deactivated user]

In English 'to live' has a progressive form but maybe it doesn't in Chinese?

[SooperMikey]

Is there a lesson to learn question words?

[josefmn_]

i am typing "他们住在哪人？" but it does not accept it ????