"What's your Hong Kong phone number?"
Translation:你的香港电话号码是多少？
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Yes, I think this is the better way to ask for a phone number: 你的电话号码是什么? "What is your phone number" versus the example/answer given ~是多少?which is like asking "How many~". Can any native speaker enlighten us, please?
can confirm ... 多少 is what I've been told by my 老师 is the more correct form for phone numbers.
"How many" is used for phone numbers, even though "what" seems more clear for English speakers.
There's no one to one correspondence between Chinese and English words, 多少 means "question word for numbers" sometimes it can be translated as how much, sometimes it's more like what, it depends on the context
What's the difference if you place the phrase Hong Kong after phone number as opposed to before?
香港 describes/modifies 电话号码, so it has to come first. That's just how the word order works in Chinese, at least, in a simple sentence structure like this. This is my understanding. I'm not a native Chinese speaker.
It's literally just like saying "what's your phone number Hong Kong?" in English. Doesn't sound right and is probably not grammatically correct in some way.
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2021.09.10
"是" is not strictly required in this question. It could just as easily be left off:
"你的香港电话号码多少？"
In the case you want to explicitly use "是“, it would be “(NOUN) 是多少？”
这个「价格」是多少？
你的手机号码「是」多少？
I would also like clarification on this, as somethimes it sems to come just after the subject and others it's seems like it's way near the end of the sentance. So confusing!
Shouldn't the translation be: 你的香港的电话号码是多少？Since 香港 modifies 电话号码, isn't the 的 particale necessary? Thanks for any clarification.
As a native chinese speaker saying 'How much is your phone number?' is really strange. 什么 would be correct
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I agree (my mother does too and she is originally from Guangzhou) - I have only ever heard 多少 used the context of "how much" as in asking for a price of some goods; using it for requesting a phone number sounds very odd to me. I don't know if some regional peculiarity or not though.
I have heard some native Chinese teachers using "多少" instead of "什么" though? It really must be a regional thing then...
https://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/word-order/
I think this would help u with the words order in Chinese
I got it wrong but I'm wrong without the question mark f*** Ive run out of hearts
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2021.4.27
Interesting that
你的电话号码多少？
is acceptable but in this case
是多少 is mandatory
I didn't report it because I have reporter's fatigue. Sometimes, I don't need the Duo tell me I'm wrong when an obviously acceptable answer hasn't been added to the tree
I think I put the same characters as they did, but it was still marked wrong???
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A variant I had tried was 你的电话号码在香港是多少？which I thought of to mean "Your phone number in Hong Kong is what?" Is this not a thing I can do?
你的香港电话号码是多少 is more common to have two 的 or is there preference to always use one 的 and that single 的 would be after the pronoun
