"我们下午三点钟会见朋友。"
Translation:We will see a friend at three in the afternoon.
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I wrote: "We will see a friend this afternoon at three".
It won't accept that either. What difference is there with the answer they accept: "We will see a friend at three in the afternoon."
Given you wrote your comment a year ago, duolingo seem to have abandoned making amendments to this course. Pity, it is a good system, way ahead of others in many ways, but it is being failed by lack of maintenance. Many people are very frustrated by the lack of diversity of English answers when they know they have written the correct answer in another way in English. We are not here to learn English.
Duolingo should realise that if they want paying customers, they have to have a product that is 100% and that updates and corrections just have to be part of the process.
Absolutely right! and you wrote this a year ago! I wrote my 'complaint' (under name 'Gracie') today! Still, it's all free!!
"We'll meet friends at three in the afternoon." got accepted today - seems things must have improved!
yes, there are many mistakes on this platform, the main one being singular and plural nouns which Duolingo cannot differentiate yet.
I don't really understand what is the purpose of 钟 here, woudln't 三点 means the same ?
点 has multiple meanings. I think the 钟 is there to indicate you are talking about time.
It can. In fact for some times e.g. five thirty, it wouldn't be possible to add “钟”. "五点半钟" would be nonsense.
Reported March 21th: "We will meet friends at 3:00 in the afternoon." The proposed answer it gave me said "3pm in the afternoon" which is a pleonasm ("3pm" already carried the information that it's the afternoon).
I hadn't heard of a pleonasm before either, but you're absolutely right! Either "in the afternoon" or "pm" should be accepted, but not both together. (As of June '19, "We will see a friend at 3pm" is not accepted.)
分 = to divide/.../part/.../minute/.../0.01 yuan
点 (diǎn) = point/dot/.../o'clock/to order/...
种 (zhōng) = clock/o'clock/time in hrs and mins
分钟 (fēnzhōng) = minute
点钟 (diǎnzhōng) = o'clock
"At 3 o clock in the afternoon we will visit a friend." should be accepted. Reported 11/30/17
"At 3pm we will visit a friend." should be accepted. Reported 11/30/2017.
I submitted the incorrect answer "We will see friends at three o'clock sharp in the afternoon." and "We will see friends at three o'clock pm in the afternoon." was suggested in its place, which is also incorrect. "Three o'clock PM" is ungrammatical English.
"We shall see a friend at three in the afternoon." This should also be accepted.
I put "we will meet a friend at 3 pm" and got "You have an extra space. We will see a friend at three in the afternoon." with hree underlined.
Why should we learn English in a Chinese course ? typing in English is learning English, it's not learning Chinese
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It feels like every time I get to this sentence, I do it wrong. Then I put what the answer is, and it tells me I had a different thing wrong. Then I put that answer, and again
It's about time DL could tell the time. 3 pm == 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at least where I come from.
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My answer of "we wil see a friend at 3 in the afternoon" was marked as incorrect. It is excactly the same as duolingo's answer except "3" is written as "three". I have had answers of time accepted using number rather tan words before, so why so picky here?
There is no indication that it's only one friend, so 'friends' should be accepted
"we will see a friend at 3 o clock this afternoon" Seriously?!? How is this wrong??
"we will see a friend at 3 o clock in the afternoon" Seriously?!?!?! HOW CAN THIS BE WRONG?!?!?!?! . How can duolingo teach English people to speak Chinese when they cannot speak English?!?!
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So no "sharp" here but it's correct, while I was wrong before for not including "sharp"? So is "zheng" meant to be soft or not?
"We will meet with a friend at three o'clock in the afternoon" should be accepted to stop me going crazy!
we will see a friend at 3 this afternoon should be accepted -- it is in fact better English than the given answer The programme does not understand the expression 'this afternoon'!
'We shall see a friend at three o'clock in the afternoon.' Can anyone tell me please, what is wrong with this sentence?
"We will see friends at 3pm" should be accepted - that was posted 3 years ago and still nothing has been done. Get a grip, Duolingo.
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The already completed part of the answer read: "We will see a friend the", rendering the question impossible to answer correctly.
Why isn't the following not accepted: "at 3 o'clock in the afternoon we shall see a friend"?
As Duo has taught " by three o'clock in the afternoon' should be accepted
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I put "We're going to meet a friend".. Not accepted. So are we just going to see our friend but not meet them? Maybe we'll see them from a distance and they won't see us?
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"We will see the friend at 3 in the afternoon." unaccepted. "...meet a friend" unaccepted. Please fix this sentence.
Had the exact sentence except "our friend' instead of "a friend." Again more inconsistencies