"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.
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).
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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
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?
Don´t you likely know why the translation "Sorry we do not have any bathroom" was not accepted?
For it to be correct English, you need to say "........a bathroom" or perhaps "any bathroom", not "the bathroom"
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
Would "Sorry, we do not have bathrooms" also work since there is no measure word here?
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"????
It is a busy life when the discussion of personal ablutions can take up so much time.
Sorry, we do not have bathroom. that should counted as a typo, and not against you. JUst Saying
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
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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.
the chinese didn't specify singular or plural.
i think in everyday US english, one would say "don't have a bathroom" if there is no bathroom on the premises; possible but less likely to pluralize to "don't have bathrooms"
@Tony - Maybe a fighter plane? A bus? A grocery store? Who knows?
@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.
I only forgot the "a" and yet, they considered it like a mistake. I'm learning chinese not English. As long as the meaning is clear, I don't get why this app is so picky about this kind of differences.
Because "the" is a definite article. Your sentence means that we have bathrooms but not the specific one that the requestor wants.
Hope this helps.
don’t is another way of saying do not. It should not have been marked incorrect.
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I got marked wrong just because I wrote it as "don't" and then the correct answer is using "do not" oh my gawd what's the difference...