"她有姐姐吗?"
Translation:Does she have an older sister?
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I guess if there were no words written, DL would’ve considered《他/她》as any of the two genders, but《她》was specifically written in the example, so I suppose you have to follow what the example directly asks for which is the “she” one.
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他/她/它 are heteroglyphs. The identical pronunciation is a kind of gender neutrality for spoken Chinese
1292
'Does she have an elder sister?' is correct, you should report it when you next see that question :)
1292
Your sentence structure is correct, but you have to use the word 没 (mei) instead of 不 (bu) when you're using 有 (you). So you should say 她有没有姐姐 :)
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As there is no definite singular sister written in the statement, the answer should accept both singular and plural, including: Does she have older sisters?
1292
I don't completely understand your question, but I'll try to help anyway :P
There is no plural form for words in Chinese, but you can specify amounts of things.
If you said ”她有一个姐姐吗?“ that would mean "Does she have one older sister?" or "Does she have an older sister?".
If you said "她有三个姐姐吗?" that would mean "Does she have three older sisters?".
And if you said "她有多个姐姐吗?" that would mean "Does she have multiple older sisters?".
I hope this answers your question, and let me know if there is anything else that's not clear :)
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有 means "have" or "has" or "had" in this case.
Ex. 1. 我有书。 I have a book.
Ex. 2. 他有书。 He has a book.
Ex. 3. 我以前有书。 I had a book before.
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I wrote elder sister instead of older sister, and this is not wrong, as in English the way of saying of a relative who is older than you can be used as "elder" too.