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"My younger sister runs every night."
Translation:我的妹妹每天晚上跑步。
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It's not less correct. It's similar to how native Spanish speakers drop off tge 'Yo' in many sentences such as "soy de Taiwan" - as opposed to “Yo soy de Taiwan”.
Colloquially, we in Mandarin when saying “我妹妹” means that you must be talking about “my own little sister”. Hence the lack of a need for “我的”.
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@ApolloK the way you argue reflects not only on this particular excercise The problem with Duolingo is that sometimes they accept both and other times they dont accept one but the other. The way I deal with it is that I don't insist in what should accepted but embrace the opportunity to practise one more time. In the end, I benefit from DLs reluctance to do the detailled work. Keep in mind, its free.
My opinion has been that Mother father, little sister and to a lesser extent friend all sound a little off with "de". The reasoning was that these people are close relatives and using it makes it less personal (only exception is pets, as much as they feel like a close relative always use "de").
i don't understand the placement of subject and time. sometimes the subject goes first, sometimes not. can someone explain?
Both are correct, but Duolingo gives you wrong sometimes because they havent added both options as the correct answer.
我现在吃饭
现在我吃饭
has the same meaning and are equally good sentences.
See here for more information:
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Time_words_and_word_order
妹妹is family, therefore 的, while quite understood, really ought not be there. I must say as somebody fluent in Chinese who just wants to see what the Net slang holds for me this proves quite difficult to find the exact sentence duolingo wants
