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"我吃面，你呢？"
Translation:I eat noodles, what about you?
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Duo, please consider accepting, "I eat noodles. Do you?" If that's another ok translation of this phrase. Thanks!
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Suggestions should be reported at the individual sentence. Writing here will have no effect, because it will not reach the course developers.
2017.11.22
I can see NO WAY to report individual sentences. I have asked before how we can do this but still no answer. The only option so far is "audio is incorrect". Please explain how to report. This discussion is the ONLY place I can find to say anything. I would LOVE to know another option. Thank you.
Just tick the box for "My answer should be accepted". You used to be able to write messages to them in all Duo courses but I guess they were getting too many so they removed that option
面 can mean noodles, bread, flour etc. 面条 means noodles. If that helps anybody!
Is there a present continuous tense in Chinese? How many tenses are there in total?
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In Chinese, there is only one verb tense, the present tense. It's the words used with the verb that give the verb its tense.
For example:
我吃了面 = I ate noodles.
我会吃面 = I will eat noodles.
Note: In this context, "会" means "will", as in, I/you/she/he/etc. will do something.
From what I understand from the previous sentences of the courses up to this one, there is no distinction from present continuous and the normal present tense in Chinese verbs. It would depend how you would read the sentence and sometimes both ways of answering is correct.
I wrote this and it said my answer was incorrect when that's the literal translation
They have used the wrong Ni. It's a descending Ni, instead of an ascending. (腻) Which translates as "greasy" - so the audio example translates to "I eat noodles. Greasy?" Yes, it is greasy to eat noodles.
面条 is more correct, and more common in everyday use, I don't know why Duo use only 面 for noodles. Same for Rice, 米饭 is more common than just 饭
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In Chinese, the tense of the verb is indicated by the words said/written with it. See my answer to dmi3ob's question.
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Could this be used in the context of ordering food at a restaurant. Could you use it similar to 'I'm getting the noodles, what about you?'
when i looked up noodles on google translate i typed in the symbol that duo said but it came up as meaning "surface"? Is this right?
Yes, that is correct: 面 also means "facet," "face," "side," "surface," as in the "face of a building" or the "side of a cube." 右面 means "right side," or "on the right;" 面子 means "face" or "social standing," or "width (of textiles or cloth);" 面目 means "facial appearance" or "behavior;" there is also 脸面 meaning "face,” “self respect" or "a person's feelings."
I have not researched the etymology, but I have heard that "face" is actually the basic or primary meaning of this character, and using the same character to mean "noodles" is a secondary meaning, somehow derived from the primary meaning of "face." Perhaps - this is just a guess on my part - the connection is that some noodles are large, flat sheets (e.g., lasagna), like little "planks" of pasta. Compare 面子 as a reference to the width of a sheet of fabric. I could easily be totally wrong about that connection, but, it's one way to remember both meanings. ᵔᴥᵔ
Yes, the character also means "face" in the sense of "facet," as in the "face" of a building, or the "side" of a cube.
All of this is getting crazy. The translation is just I eat noodles, what about you? No sense fussing over it.
"Do yo" would be a proper replacement for what about you. The test accepted it for me once before, so i don't understand why got it wrong. My chinese teacher has also told me that "do you" is usually an acceptable translation of 你呢.
Perhaps because you have spelled it incorrectly. "Do you" vs "Do yo".
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”I eat noodles AND what about you” is a correct translation. I double checked it with a native speaker. Duolingo staff members, please fix this.
this question is so anal about punctuation in a way I haven't seen in other courses. If I lack the question mark or the comma it rejects it.
When health runs out how can we get more without losing all we have done on the lesson
I wrote the correct sentence and it was deemed incorrect - exact match of characters. There's a glitch.
