"上午八点四十五分。"
Translation:8:45 in the morning.
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You are right, it sounds exactly like xiawu, which was also offered by the wordbank. THIS IS REALLY MOST MISLEADING!
The male speaker has an accent that comes out in some of the recordings. He used a nasal vowel instead of pronouncing -ng. Report it.
x and sh do sound different, but it's subtle.
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i‘m dealing with the female voice and i repeatedly hear 下午, not when i press the slow audio.
Yes, I agree the pronunciation isn't very clear.
Not to be picky but Side note: "hear" is the proper use of the word.
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i keep repeatedly typing 下午, cause that's what i hear, when i press the slow audio i do hear 上 though.
I think it is just specifying A time, not saying that that is the current time, so Duo doesn't like your "It is" before the time expression. I also think you might need a space before the "am" to separate it from the 8:45.
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Maybe you need a space between the 45 and the am... It accepted my answer of 8:45 am.
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2020.6.9 I may be wrong, but doesn't this 上午 because it's in front of clock time, actually means A.M.
下午 before clock time means P.M.?
So technically this should be "It's 8:45 A.M."
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The former is for early morning, the latter is for late morning. I forget the approximate cutoff, but I think I learned it's usually like 10. Either way, it's not a hard distinction.
They are pretty much the same. 早上 is just more of "morning," while 上午 is before noon. There really is no difference, it's just used in different contexts.
I was taught 早上 is usually used between 6am and 9am, 上午 between 9am and 12 noon!
It doesn't accept the written out version of 8:45.... I wrote "eight forty-five in the morning" and it was wrong...
I did the same - you should give instructions about whether it's acceptable to use numbers/letters
That is not really how it is said in English, although the meaning is clear enough.
The time using 24 hour clock i.e. 08:45 should be sufficient IMO.
I've reported it but they haven't accepted it.
Duo gets confused with numbers quite often as it assumes you've made a typo - lol!
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Ah, I see. So, I can say either 我早上吃饭 or 我上午吃饭 but I cannot say 我早上七点吃饭 since 早上 cannot be paired with 七点?
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2020.12.27
You can pair 早上 with a time just like you can say "7 in the morning" in English rather than 7 a.m.
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"It is 8:45 in the morning." Is it WRONG only by adding "it is"??? Your translation cannot be considered as a "sentence".
Yes, the Chinese is also not a "complete" sentence.
现在是八点四十五分. = "It is (now) 8:45 in the morning".
"eight forty-five in the morning" ---- not excepted... My frustration level
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It happened several times. I answered exactly the same as your correct solution but rejected. I don't know why. If previously I answered using Microsoft Pin Yin, this time I answered using Windows keyboard.
In English (my English and every other native English I've seen/heard) we only use "o'clock" after whole hours such as 8, not hours and minutes or hours and fractions.
❤❤❤ i put in the exact same answer and it marks it wrong each time. Cant finish the level because of it :(
The answer I gave is the same as the correct answer yet it says it is incorrect.
Whats the meaning of the shi wu fen at the end of the statement. Please someone help me.
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'shi wu fen' is only part of the phrase which by itself would mean 15 minutes. The complete phrase would be 'si shi wu fen' or 45 minutes. And the complete sentence (though I often mix up morning/afternoon/evening) (I think) means "8:45 in the morning"
Stop marking my answers wrong and then putting the exact same thing up as the right answer!
