"My daughter is very cute."
Translation:我的女儿非常可爱。
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You are given 非常 (fēi cháng) which is used in place of very. It means very, exceptional, extreme etc.
Is there any difference between 很 and 非常? I thought both has the same meaning : very, but why it was incorrect when I put 很? Is there any reason behind it? Thank you.
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Shouldn't this be "... Extremely cute"? I thought that is what 非常 meant
In my experience 非常 is actually a rather commonly used word, too common to mean "extremely".
我的 女儿 很非常可爱 was marked wrong, but I don't understand why. The word 很 appear是to be unnecssary, but is it incorrect??
Yes. ”很非常" sounds very strange to me. I think it's flat out wrong, but I don't know for sure. Also, it seems that you typed spaces between characters. There are no spaces in Chinese. If you put spaces, that in itself will get it marked wrong.
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Is the lexical material in duolingo somehow representative of Chinese mainstream culture? I mean was the material intentionally picked in order to provide an insight into the Chinese culture, or is it simply that the social mindset of people working in the Chinese section leaked into the product?
It sounds a bit more assertive with 的 at the end but you can use it or not, it's optional.
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Well, there is actually a lot of thing hidden underneath. I'll try to explain it in a more grammatical way.
In Chinese (and many other east Asian languages like Japanese and Korean), you can use a "adjective-like thing" as a predicate. You may have already learned earlier that 我很可爱 is valid Chinese although you don't see the verb "be" (很 is not be!).
Here I say "adjective-like thing" because 可爱 itself is not yet an adjective. It's hard to describe it using conceptions from English grammar.
的 is the attribute marker. 可爱的 is a true adjective. 地 is the adverbial marker. 可爱地 is a true adverb.
And in this case, the adjective 可爱的 cannot used as predicate anymore. It requires a verb:
我的女儿是非常可爱的。
Now it's grammatically correct, although a bit weird.
And in real life, you can omit the verb "be" to express intimacy (try to imagine it in English):
我的女儿非常可爱的。
it's a stressing/emphasizing indicator, translating roughly to "really and truly." sort of like how american kids use the word "literally" everywhere, to add emphasis.
Because they are trying to teach us something new, namely, 非常, like xnaut said, 非常 is stronger than 很. There is more to this of course, but, this is good enough explanation for now. There are websites, youtube, etc that can give you more info, such as: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=%E9%9D%9E%E5%B8%B8. We have different ways of saying the same thing in English and we use different words depending on what we want to convey and emphasize, well, so does Chinese.
My phone doesn't have the chinese character for "nu" so I was unable to type ''girlfriend'' and ''daughter'' correctly..Im using the t26 pinyin function, any help would be great
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女 (nü) is typically written on pinyin keyboard by hitting n and v.
Hint: If you read the thread you will see @fracle had already answered this. It helps to check previous messages...
