"What's your Hong Kong phone number?"
Translation:你的香港电话号码是多少？
November 19, 2017
9 Comments
Dropped the 的 implies closeness. It's not really possible to be close to a phone number
November 19, 2017
Keith_APP
551
A native opinion: I am not sure what do you mean by close. Both are acceptable to me.
Let me change telephone number to wife to illustrate.
你香港的老婆
would sound more like your wife in Hong Kong (as oppose to your other wives living elsewhere , haha)
你的香港老婆
would sound more like your wife who is from Hong Kong (as oppose to your other wives of other origins)
Telephone numbers are used exclusively in an area and thus the 2 phrases have almost no difference.
November 19, 2017
香（spice)，not 想 (to think)。Both are xiang, but with different tones and different meanings
September 30, 2018
Angel509
- 287
What's the difference if you place the phrase Hong Kong after phone number as opposed to before?
February 5, 2019
