"Do you have time this afternoon?"
Translation:你今天下午有时间吗?
November 22, 2017
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The problem is with *这个下午. While it is understandable what you mean, people just don't say it that way (it is permissible in some non-Mandarin local languages, but not in Standard Chinese or an other variant of Mandarin I have encountered so far). You say 今天下午 "today afternoon". And similarly for other days or times of day: 昨天晚上, 明天中午, 那天早上 etc.
BarAdal3
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I think Chinese is the last language to be omitting the subject (after Japanese and Korean, which do this extensively).