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- "你们在笑什么？"
"你们在笑什么？"
Translation:What are you laughing at?
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You can't insist that 你们 means "you guys" or "you people" in some questions, and in other questions insist that it means "you".
Be consistent. Or even better, be flexible.
"what are you people laughing at" should be accepted. Are you going to penalise me for trying to follow collective nouns or not?
This is my first time seeing this sentence structure. Do you say 你们在看什么? to ask "What are you looking at?" ?
are we sure that works? the meanings in English are quite different but maybe not in Chinese
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Daaang! I finally can passive-aggressively attack people in Chinese, in order to hide or even low key express my insecurities.
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Rrrrrgh. Duolingo needs to add a Report option for, "This sentence repeated, even though I got it right the first time through, because there weren't enough model sentences to make a full lesson." This used to happen all the time in Swahili. C'mon, guys!
Not really, it can mean both. And context would tell - it's not "typically" one or the other.
"Why are you laughing" should really be accepted. It would be the much more common phrase in English to express this meaning.
Technically 'What are you laughing at' should be 'At what are you laughing.' Duolingo, maybe include other acceptable idiomatic translations, such as 'Why are you laughing' or 'at what [or whom!] are you laughing.'
Actually, it's completely valid to end a sentence with a preposition as far as I am aware.
