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"Is tomorrow Sunday?"
Translation:明天星期日吗？
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It's actually best (more proper/correct and common) to use 是, but it's allowable to omit it as well. Allowable, but not preferable. I double checked this answer with a native speaker before sharing, since I was confused at the omission as well. I disagree with the course authors omitting 是 in this instance.
Omits 是is improper. Sort of like asking people "Tomorrow Sunday?" People would understand “明天星期天嗎？”, base on your tone. But the proper way to say it is " 明天是星期天嗎?“
The first literally means Heaven's Day and the second Sun's Day. Both translate to Sunday and are used evenly. I prefer to say 星期天 just because I'm so bad at the Chinese 'R' sound
They mean the same, no difference. Actually, there are quite a few intetchangeable variations for Sunday: 星期天，星期日，礼拜天，礼拜日，周日 (but NO 周天, that would be incorrect). Pinyin is li3 bai4 for 礼拜，and zhou1 for 周.
They have exactly the same meaning. It's up to you which one you prefer to use at any given time.
Theyre the same but i think its more common to say 星期日 on the mainland and星期天 in taiwan
By the way, if you also want to know something, then up-vote the question, or simply wait for someone to answer it, instead of writing a separate post letting everybody know this. These are "Me too"-like posts, which are not helpful to the discussion. This is a general rule applying to any internet forum. Discussions become tiresome to read if there are a lot of 'me-too'-posts. Of course this applies not only to questions, but also to statements, opinions, etc.
Often, 是 is omitted in spoken language. It is less formal but still acceptable.
I guess because the rest are just numbers like one to six, but different on Sundays Monday 星期一 Tuesday 星期二 Wed 三 Thu 四 Fri 五 Sat 六 Sunday 星期日/天 or 禮拜日/天 or 周日
With respect to use of 是，my understanding that is is omitted if used in questions, but used in answers...please correct me if I am wrong.
I dont think it's fair because I got the answer right but they didnt accept it. So I kind of got mad and report to them and I said that ye answer should have been accepted!
