"几月几号？"
Translation:What date is it?
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I thought the same - this doesn't indicate "today" so it could plausibly be about the date of an event you're being invited to or something like that.
Similar. I put 'what month and day is it?' It didn't like my interpretation.
You are correct. A date is only the number, not the month. Like, the 18th. Duo is inconsistent. Sometimes it says "day" of the month and sometimes it says "date." Annoying.
yeah, i thought so too. it would be a natural question to ask for clarification on some event
I typed "what day of the month is it" and it was wrong. Saw in other question, which was a reverse question, it say "What day of the month is it" in english, and it literally translates to this exact same character (ji yue ji hao) in chinese. This is not consistent.
There's nothing to suggest the question is about today. Literal translation would be, 'what month what day?'
It's a common way to ask for a date because it's obvious in context what date you're asking about, like so:
我们想去涮火锅，你来吗？ We're thinking of going for hot pot, you coming? 几月几号？ What date?
"What date?" alone gets rejected, though. I just reported it after seeing that someone else had the same translation as I did.
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It's not a common phrase to ask "what date is it" in English. It rejected "what day is it" and "what day amd month".
I think Duolingo helps you more in translation than in actually learning.
I mean, for learning purposes you could say "what month, what day (is it)?" as long as you understand the meaning of it.
Know how you would say the same thing in English - that's translation, which may be irrelevant for those who just want to be able to communicate.
Now keep learning, I just wanted to say that, and remember that's merely a thought, not a fact :v
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Quite so, and if you don't supplement Duolingo with other tools you will sound like an English speaker who is calquing all their phrases :')
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In the beginning of that very same lesson Duo provides an alternative answer 'which month, what day' but rate that exact phrase wrong in here
A date is only the number, not the month. Like, the 18th. Duo is inconsistent. Sometimes it says "day" of the month and sometimes it says "date." Annoying.
What day is it was not accepted. As a not english speaker, what is the difference with it is and is it when there is a question in front?
Do you not need to say the 〇 of a date such as 二〇一二年? Would it just be said as 二一二年? It sounds liket that when duo says it
I look at it like this: In english we start off learning the longer way of don't, shouldn't and ect.
So, if we tured "do not" in to don't and "should not" in to shouldn't, then why not turn "what month and what day it is?" to "What date it is?"
Does this make sense?
Can not continue with this lesson, the man's voice is too difficult to understand
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This is not a good question. This sentence would not be used out of context. Either give it context or remove it.
"what day is it" and "what date is it" means the same thing. Should add as an answer.
I'm pretty sure simply “What date?” should be accepted—surely if I was discussing proposed time off with my boss, or some functionary was asking my birthday, this would still be a felicitous question? I see nothing here that limits it to today, as English “… is it” does.
Could someone not ask this while you were making a booking? In which case simply “what date?” should be accepted.
Yes. All the confusion in this discussion area is because the fixed phrase in Chinese is 几月几号？ while in English it's “what's the date today?”, but these are not literally equivalent. Duolingo doesn't seem to have a strategy for distinguishing “what you would normally say” from “what exactly does this mean”.
Do not ever trust Google Translate! It does not understand language, it just (well… not really, but this is the right nontechnical way to think about it) uses statistical alignments between texts that humans translated previously and cribs mindlessly from that. This means that for language pairs that do not express things in the same way, it will be wrong consistently. English/Mandarin is an especially bad pair, and this is a typical example. Sometimes it just makes gibberish, though, since it has no clue that figures of speech even exist, and Chinese is fond of them.
It's a great frustration when you work there. Management is all, “machine translation is a solved problem” and it bloody isn't.
'What date is it' isnt the way i usually ask so i got this wrong. 'What is the date' is how i usually ask or 'what is today'
幾號 is asking for a numerical date: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. While Day is asking for the name: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc. 幾月幾號 - the answer is a numerical number not day of the week!
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The'so-called "correct" translation is incomplete because it gives only the date. To be complete and correct, the translation should be " What date and month is today?"
In context, this phrase is often used to ask what day something is happening. So "what month what day" is accurate.
Not sure why day is being downvoted. Often in American English day is used in place of date.
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Day is often used in place of date, but it's technically not correct as day and date can have different meanings in English
I thought the same thing. It is common to ask "What day?" and expect to get the date.