"Do you have time this afternoon?"
Translation:你今天下午有时间吗？
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This is what I put too. Can anybody explain why this is not a correct option?
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.
时 (shí) = o'clock/time
间 (jiān) = between/among/room
时间 (shíjiān) = time/period
I find that 有空 is more natural, but 有时间 is a little more formal. Both are perfectly acceptable though.
you think that you are improving and then duo pulls the reverse card on you
It isn’t. Someone probably just forgot to add it to the list of accepted answers. Please use the flag button to report he missing answer to the contributors next time the sentence comes up.
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I think Chinese is the last language to be omitting the subject (after Japanese and Korean, which do this extensively).
What do you mean by "last language"? Chinese omits the subject very often, not as much as Japanese, but much more often than English or German.
