"我们姓王。"
Translation:Our last name is Wang.
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If I was talking about my family, then I would say "Our last name is Lewis."
If I happened to be with a bunch of people, who were not related to me but happened to also have Lewis as their last names, I would want to say "Our last names are Lewis"
I thought the same thing at first. After some research I found out that 姓 is actually a verb meaning 'to be surnamed' or 'to have the surname' so what you're really saying here is "We are surnamed Wang". So in this case, you don't need 的 because you don't really want to say "Our are surnamed Wang".
You can say '我们的姓' for 'our surname' but for personal things such as names, relatives and your home, you can miss out the 的. If your not sure about something though, you should always use 的 to be safe.
You can omit de as a possessive (it's optional) if it's something personal, like "my mom" could be written as wo mama
Actually its not the proper grammer that why it wouldn't work Tell me what if i say, "we are surnamed ice" or " you both are surnamed lewis" would it work i dont think so
We are the Wangs work as well. This would not be a mistake. Please update. Thanks.
In one correction I got "We are surnamed Wang" which is very strange English. I am not even sure surname is a proper verb. I get that we must make a distinction between given name and surname, but "family name" might also do
Because it's the last name!! Eventually they put their surname first but still it's their last name/family name not the first name!
It doesn't like the way I say it. My wife told me I said it correctly. It didn't like the way she says it either, and she was born and raised in China.
姓is not last name. Is surname. Our surname is Wong. Not last name. Surname is for family surname.
duo really needs to get rid of the concept "last name" for east asian nomenclature. it is FAMILY NAME.
the family name is frequently called "last name" in western culture because it's the LAST name of one's full name. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/last_name
east asian names have FAMILY NAME first. TECHNICALLY, that would be THE first name, but that's not what the intended meaning is for "first name". just because SURNAME and FAMILY NAME are less frequently used terms doesn't you should be ignorant and retarded like the course creators.
