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"对不起，我们没有洗手间。"
Translation:Sorry, we do not have a bathroom.
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對不起，我們沒有洗手間。
There are many ways to say "bathroom", the place where you use toilet, in Chinese.
洗手間/洗手间 (xǐshǒujiān)
廁所/厕所 (cèsuǒ) -- most frequently used in daily life
化粧室/化妆室 (huàzhuāngshì) -- dialectal? but common in Taiwan
衛生間/卫生间 (wèishēngjiān) -- used more in mainland China
盥洗室/盥洗室 (guànxǐshǐ) -- very formal, chiefly in Taiwan
I heard that the name of "toilet" varies from dialects to dialects, so maybe there are some words common in an area but unusual in another.
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2020.6.2 Hmm... interestingly enough, I have seen 化粧室 used many times in Japan say in a mall.
Perhaps this is like "a powder room" back in the day to refer to a bathroom
Normal Qwerty keyboard most likely. The chinese characters are probably being typed on a Dayu or Cangjie method input (less likely is Wubi method). After that it's just a case of making sure you have the international english layout for accents (Qwerty of course, Dvorak is not up to scratch for pinyin accents).
In Beijing downtown (hutong area), many houses don't have toilets. Yet one can find free public toilets everywhere
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2020.6.2 Same in the States. Every home has one, even a few toilets, but your best bet is to go to a large mall or public library if you need a free, public restroom. Restaurant restrooms are almost all for customers only. The States infrastructure is pitiful
China is a huge country with enormous differences in development between regions?
@Funk - If only you come out of your armchair and travel the world you will know what is life like outside your cocoon. A great restaurant may be offering the best food in the world and not waste space trying to sell you a toilet, when there are seven of them in the public area three metres from the restaurant entrance. Public transport buses are another example which usually fail to carry enough bathrooms for needy souls like yourself. And if you walked into Coles or Woolworths / Safeway outlets in Australia, you'll find yet another place that doesn't stock bathrooms or toilets. Any other question?
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Don´t you likely know why the translation "Sorry we do not have any bathroom" was not accepted?
Would "Sorry, we do not have bathrooms" also work since there is no measure word here?
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I answered that and i was marked wrong. Duolingo says i need to the article "a". Why do I need the article "a" when i said "bathrooms"????
For it to be correct English, you need to say "........a bathroom" or perhaps "any bathroom", not "the bathroom"
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From what I gather, public/community/neighbourhood bathrooms were quite common in China. So "we have no bathroom (but there is one just down the street)" makes sense.
the same applies to Hong Kong in the sixties, when there was a communal ablution block on each level of apartments.
What's the difference between bu and mei. Sorry, I'm not Chinese. I'm not European either
不 is used to saying "no [noun]", while 没 is used to say "no (or not or doesn't or isn't) [verb]". 不 is used for nouns, and 没 is used for verbs
as far as i get you cannot use "bu" before "you" you need "mei" sorry i don't know how to write pying phonemes with european keyboard
It is a busy life when the discussion of personal ablutions can take up so much time.
@Tony - Maybe a fighter plane? A bus? A grocery store? Who knows?
Sorry, we do not have bathroom. that should counted as a typo, and not against you. JUst Saying
@Asahe - Buses don't have a bathroom. Fighter planes don't have a bathroom. Trams don't have a bathroom. Taxis don't have a bathroom. The children's play area in the shopping centre doesn't have a bathroom.
I'm answering since you asked.
There seems to be a hiccup for the voiceover in the second part. Saying 们没 weirdly.
probably not. anyways there should be 2 right answers. (I know 'cause i'm chinese) 1 Sorry, we don't have a washroom/ bathroom 2 Sorry, we don't have washrooms/ bathrooms
Why wouldn't the following also be correct: "Sorry, but we don't have a bathroom here."
I do not think that is acceptable. "we have not" should be corrected to "we do not have".
Thanks.
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Duolingo is being too picky again for not accepting answer without "a" in "...have a bathroom"
Technically, youre not supposed to call it a bathroom unless you can actually take a bath there! Rather, thd correct word is restroom; Duolingo got this on incorrect.
As a 'restroom' do you mean there is a couch or bed or chair for someone to rest on? This is an Americanism. The rest of the English speaking world is different: in Australia it is a 'toilet' and in England, it is 'lavatory' - the word used by Royalty. Enjoy the relief. Duolingo is internationally correct.
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"A" in a negative sentence shouldn't be “ANY”? So the correct answer should be: sorry we don't have ANY bathroom instead.
