"You eat noodles."
Translation:你吃面。
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Yes, should be 面条. The 'report' button only gives me an option to report problems, with the audio, the dictionary hint, or the English translation -- so there's no way to report this.
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As you learn more Chinese, you will find that two character words are sometimes shortened to one character in sentences. Native speakers on the forum say that natural sounding Chinese produces a certain rhythm. It is usually accomplished by dropping or adding characters. Non-native speakers will have to learn how this works over time.
To clarify, yes, 面 is noodles, face and surface, but this is because the simplified character for noodles looks the same as the other two meanings. Otherwise noodles would be 麵 in traditional characters. The specific word for noodles is indeed 麵條 but saying 吃麵 or 吃飯 instead of 吃麵條 or 吃米飯 sounds a lot neater and the single character word is much easier to understand with the context given from the verb.
