"Where is the hospital?"
Translation:医院在哪儿？
November 20, 2017
8 Comments
Na er is a northern accent. Na li is used more throughout china but people will understand you either way
January 5, 2018
cafe_disco
1031
Yes, adding 儿 to certain words is characteristic of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. The term for this process is 儿化 (erhua). If anyone's interested, here's a link to the wikipedia page for it:
August 25, 2018
What's the difference between 'where is the hospital?' and 'the hospital is there.' ? Both are 医院在哪儿, right?
June 24, 2018
The two "na" characters are different. 那 means there, whereas 哪 means where. The little box makes a difference
July 3, 2018
醫院在<sub>哪兒？/</sub>哪裡(lǐ)？
哪裡(trad.)/哪里(simp.) is another way to express "where" and interchangeable with "哪兒/哪儿", but the former is more formal.
November 20, 2017
