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"My friend was in New York yesterday."
Translation:我的朋友昨天在纽约。
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Do you say "what did you made last week?"? 了 and 昨天 in the same sentence would look like that
This would be so much better if the app would actually teach us instead of trial and error, and error, and error and....
The languages with alphabets differents from romanian alphabet always looks strange as that cuz duolingo has only 2 spots for text input
Why is 了 not used with 在?
I think of it this way: I don't say, "I was atted New York yesterday." In Chinese "to be" verbs remain the same regardless of the time frame. 在 is a verb that includes "to be"in its meaning along with "at." So I literally say with 在, "Today I am at; tomorrow I am at; and yesterday I am at."
Consider these two sentences: 1. 我昨天在纽约 2. 我昨天在纽约了 In the second sentence, the inclusion of 了 indicates a change of state. In sentence 1, you may still be in New York now. In sentence 2, you are not.
I wish that Duolingo would put translated words next to each character in the answer sentence, as they do for French.
"的" can be omitted for things like close family members, e.g. "我妈妈" or "你弟弟"
"的" can be omitted for things like close family members, e.g. "我妈妈" or "你弟弟"
Only in some cases(like really close relationships as brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers)
no it can include friends depending on the degree of closeness. As long as its someone who's more than just an acquaintance it is accepted
That's interesting how it weaves a language with less syllable, essentially saying the two are a title, you usually never see one without the other, or something along those lines.
Its interestingly poetic.
because the zuotian implies already that the event happened already, you don't need to have the past particle. Just like how you wouldn't say "I ate before this already"; you'd only say "i ate before this"
我朋友昨天在纽约。is how it's really said, according to Baidu Translate. We get the textbook version here
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In Chinese, the time has to go directly before or after the subject (beginning of the sentence).
在了：according to my Chinese teacher you can - you can‘t omit 了。She is a Chinese from Beijing.
