"我喜欢吃鸡肉面条。"
Translation:I like eating noodles with chicken.
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I don't agree.
What then would "chicken noodles" translate to if "chicken and noodles" is accepted ? (Which unfortunately, is)
There needs to be a distinction
Duo finally accepts it from Chinese to English but not from English to Chinese.
Why can't it just be "I like eating chicken noodles" if it doesn't have the 和 character? Is the "and" just implied? Is there no way to say "with" ?
Given that the sequence is "noodles and chicken" in the Chinese sentence, this same sequence should be acceptable in the English translation.
How is "I like to eat chicken and noodles" not accepted? It's even in the same order. Reported
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Come on! "Noodles with chicken" or "Chicken noodles". It's the same bloody thing!!
So we're supposed to memorise that "鸡肉面条" means "noodles WITH chicken" because "chicken noodles" is apparently something completely different?
Chicken with noodles - marked wrong. Only "noodles with chicken". Seems very arbitrary from in English....especially when they explicitly reverse the order in the target sentence.
what part is with? it literally says i like eating chicken noodles why is the English translation given noodles with chicken?
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First one is mian meaning front/face （面） The second one is mian tiao （面条） that is noodels , tiao （ 条） as a stand alone character means article, strip etc
I live in China and order food all the time. If you asked for a translation of 鸡肉面条，you would get either noodles with chicken or chicken and noodles. Both should be accepted or this is just an exercise to memorize duolingo and not understand Mandarin
Why is there a "hen" in the "I (very) like korean food." sentence but one is not needed when "I like chicken noodles."
The hen word " 很" means " really/very". It is an intensifier.
The former means " I 很 (really) like ..."
The latter means " I like .."
"I like eating chicken noodles" chicken noodles.... strangely not accepted. clearly this is a memorization exercise in all aspects. hrrmph.
Does this sentence imply the chicken being IN the noodles or the chicken eaten alongside the noodles?
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11/13/2021 Make upbyour freaking mind - Chicken with noodles or noodles with chicken. I have grown tired of the haphazard decision.
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In Beijing in 2011 the only decent meat we could buy was pork, although we think they may have been selling rat on the street
Same simpleton problem using colloquial local lingo. chicken noodles... noodles w chicken ...total bunk..fix please..
The snafu of having to memorize colloquial order for no useful reason persists...fix this ..
In English the protein is usually listed first, so chicken with noodles is more correct
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The noodles with chicken have some peaces of chicken meat in a big bowl of noodles , so you can not use 'chicken with noodles'
There is no noodles made of chicken, hence you can't simply have a "chicken noodle" unless it's describing a dish, like a chicken noodle soup.
But you could be describing a dish here. "Chicken noodles" is totally acceptable. Think of "garlic bread": an English speaker would understand that the bread isn't actually made of garlic, it just has garlic on it. Same with pork dumplings or avocado toast.
I was thinking the same, like shrimp ramen. Shrimp is just the flavoring. Could be the same with 'chicken noodles'.