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"Do they enjoy playing games?"
Translation:他们喜欢不喜欢玩游戏？
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Oh they are just checking us if we still remember the A不A system or not, both the 吗 and the A不A is interchangeable
I tried wording this "他们喜欢玩游戏吗？" and it was marked wrong. Is there something I don't understand about when you need to use the 吗? question structure vs. when you need to use the (verb)不(verb) sentence structure? I thought they were more or less both always valid?
Is this an oversight or is there a good reason why I was marked wrong?
No, your understanding of 吗 and verb+不+verb questions is correct, both should be valid answers. It's an oversight. Just report it and don't worry, your sentence is correct. :) As far as I know this is still in beta, so things like this tend to happen.
Makes sense. It's frustrating though that it's been over a week (12/25/17 today) and it's still not accepted.
I understand that the team has limited resources, but if they don't have the resources to keep up in a timely manner, why did they launch the course to the public?
A limited / private release alpha could have allowed them to control the number of users testing the course, so that they could have stayed on top of reports.
This level of dysfunctionality and poor responsiveness to reports is not necessary, it's a question of bad management, unnecessarily bad choices being made.
NONE of my reports of missing or wrong hover-over hints have been corrected either and many of them have been over a month now. This level of incompetence and dysfunctionality really rubs me the wrong way...I had been a paying subscriber and I cancelled my subscription recently, and this was a factor in it.
The hover-over hints don't give "玩", yet this is what the exercise wants.
This is very frustrating and makes the exercise hard to complete.
I have been told it is common to use 他们 over 她们 when gender is unspecified.
One would only notice a difference in writing since both 他 and 她 are spoken as Tā
literally i wrote the correct answer when i got it wrong still it had been incorrect, how can i skip this question?
他们喜欢玩游戏吗 should be accepted as well! It has the same meaning, but other structure. Grammatically it is correct.
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What about "他们喜欢玩不玩游戏”？Do they like to play/not play games. Seems to have the same basic meaning in English as do they like/not like to play games, but not sure if it works in Chinese.
Literally: "They like not like play games?" = [proper English grammar] "Do they like to play games?"
Yes/no questions using the pattern "verb/adjective + bù + verb/adjective" (i.e. verb + not + verb) were introduced at an earlier stage.
Remember to always read the notes/lesson at the bottom of the introductory page for each new lesson. If you have missed them so far, go back and review all of them, including the sentence examples, as they make everything much easier.
