"星期天几号？"
Translation:What day of the month is it on Sunday?
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"Or what date is it on Sunday?" Any other way of saying has to include the word "date" if it's to make any immediate sense.
Maybe reverted today 2021 Sept 8 it still says date, maybe of one type the answer its accepted.
If you will try to inquire such way in any English speaking country, you will be ridiculed. English speaking people, usually, say "What date is Sunday?"
"What date is Sunday?&What is Sunday`s date?" both are appropriate,right? Are you an English native speaker?
Bruh! "what day of the month is on Sunday?" Ithink they just answered their own question @-@ no?
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I have failed it writing exactly this cause it was suppose to be ".. is it on Sunday", not "... is on Sunday". Seriously!?
Yours (AmyLynJust) is a much better answer that the given one. The question we are asked to translate is asking for a date - which will always be a number (4th, 5th etc.) not a day, which would only lead to repeating the day given, that is, Sunday.
Don't get to hopeful. I don't think duolingo bother to check these discussions. It just lets us let off steam
But it doesn't say "Sunday's," so I'm not sure. I just did, "What is the date Sunday?" since I thought Sunday's would not be an accepted answer.
Right. It should be date. There is no "day" of the month. There is only "date" of the month, which is what it's really asking.
yeah, my English textbook from China does have a lot of weird points and old-schooled sayings.
Xingqi refers to week. There is no mention of yue here. Shouldn't it be asking: what day of the week is it?...example: saturday
The answer is the number of day in the month. 星期天几号？ 星期天二十五号。25 is the number of the day in the month .
The Chinese asks the number (date). The accepted answer is (day). When "what day is .. " is asked in English it's always the DAY (Mon Tues Weds Thurs etc) not the date. Very confusing.
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02 Dec 2019: It accepts the answer "What day is it on Sunday" but doesn't accept "What date is it on Sunday".
No, because the sentence already says the day is Sunday. You wouldn't ask: "What day of the week is Sunday?"
"Both are correct, 星期日is more formal, and 星期天is more colloquial."
This sentence doesn't make sense. What DAY of the month is it on SUNDAY? It should be date, it's messing my mind
I don't know why there are so many sentences in this course that are so very specific about how they need to be translated, when there are much better ways to say the same thing exist in English. Are our reports not being read? Has this course been abandoned? There are a handful of sentences that I just have to copy/paste in order to get past them. It removes all the fun of learning, and makes me nervous to interact with a native speaker without constantly second guessing. I appreciate this program and all that I've learned from it, but I can't help to wonder if the captain has jumped ship.
What day of the month is it on Sunday? Ive never heard such a sentence in english conversation
几号 should be pronounced as jî hào. The tone is incorrect on 2nd, March, 2018.
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How is "what is Sunday's day of the month?" incorrect? Mind you I'd naturally say "what is Sunday's date?"
"Sunday is what date?" isn't commonly used in English. We usually say "What is the date on Sunday?"
It is quite confusing to me that in case of some sentences it is accepted (actually required) to type '... is IT on ...', while some others disallow 'it'. It really does not matter if I type "what day of the month is on Sunday" or "what day of the month is it on Sunday" as in both cases I clearly get the meaning, but it is really frustrating, when omitting or using 'it' is marked as an error.
Duo is wrong! We already know that the "day" is Sunday. The coorect word to use is "date" because that is what the question is really asking. There is no such thing as a "day of the month." There is a day of the week, and in this sentence the day of the week is Sunday. It should be "date of the month."
I don't get this... It says the correct answer is what DAY of the month is it on SUNDAY? That makes no sense because in the answer it says it is SUNDAY but it asks what DAY it is! Does this mean what DATE of the month is it on Sunday? Like if you agree
It's different, very different ... but interesting. One of the ancestral languages that we can enjoy today.
This is a stupid question. If someone asked me this in real life I'd walk away from the conversation.
Who do you say "bite me " in mandarin ?
duolingo please !!!!! make the translation better i think "what date is sunday " should be accepted i've gotten this wrong thrice and the grammar is off
Someone needed to explain to the person that made this answer that date implies day, month and sometimes even the year.
it makes more sense for it to be :what is the date on sunday what day of the month is it on sunday sounds so stupid
"What day of the month is on sunday?" without "it" why is this wrong?
That could be considered correct in colloquial English, But I believe it is because "is" is a verb. "It" in this case is in place of a context word like "today, tomorrow".
You wouldn't say "What day of the month is" - you'd be more likely to say "What day of the month is it [today/on Sunday]
i dont get the point, why people ask "what day of the month is it on Sunday?" I even dont understand that question in english??? what exactly that question want to know?
You're right technically but realistically no one speaks like that in English so it's wrong.
What kind if translation is that....What date is on Sunday. Sound more realistic.
The tone for 号 is not right, it sounds like Hǎo. It should be Hào. For on the question, on this the audio sounds correct.
"What is the date of sunday", "what date is it on sunday? " must be acceptable
If 几 is the interrogative expression here, why it is not at the end of the sentense, i mean why it is not 星期天号几？
Plus what is the difference between 几 and 多少 cause it seems that they both mean how many ? Are they interchangeable ?
"What is the day of the month on Sunday?" was marked wrong, though like the given answer it's a bit long-winded, it's perfectly OK English. I agree with AmyLynJust - a much better answer.
Doesn't make sense at all. Should be "What is the date on Sunday?". Your answer "what is the day on Sunday" is stupid, we know it's Sunday!
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The audio isn't correct. The reader pronounces 几 as "jí" (in the second tone). It should be in the third tone.
Chinese agents on special asignments should hot learn English on Duolingo...
I'm not a native and I heard the expression 'day of the month' for the first time..
'The day of the month' is simply called as 'date' right?
like, what is today's date?
The translation just makes it complicated and confusing
Why is it that:
"What time is it" = xianzai ji dian "What is today's date" = jintian ji hao "What day of the week is it today" = jintian xingqi ji
i.e. why does ji come last only when asking about what day of the week it is, while all other quantifiable units follow after ji?
Wow...the inflection on this pronounciation is horribly wrong. My mom is from Taiwan and couldn't understand what was being said.
Hope they fix these improper English answers.... There's no such phrases!!!
actually xingqitian (all 1st tones) means Sunday; xingqiji means which day (of the week)
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The English answer is very confusing. What was being asked? What day of the month is it on Sunday? the answer should be SUNDAY right as what day is being asked sorry I am really confused.
Nope, the answer "Sunday" would be to the question "What day of the WEEK is it on Sunday". Month usually has 30-31 days ;).
But yeah, English translation isn't the best one.
"What day of the month is it on Sunday" is correct english. I wrote: "What day of the month is Sunday" and got it right on the first try. It does makes sense the way I wrote it. Remember to check Dolingo's definition... In other words, it is like saying (assuming someone coversation is asking about next Sunday because they want to make sure they are free on that day (of the month) or date ( of the month) )
What day or date is it on Sunday?
Does this makes sense?
I also thought that it doesn't specify month, but of course I can't be sure.
After digging deeper, it turns out that 号 (hào) stands for: ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people. This is according to https://chinese.yabla.com/ Who knew?!!
Day of the month?? where is the month part? Tried it on google translate and it came up with "What day is Sunday?" which is how I translated it. :-/
The difficulty is probably as much in the English language. "What day is Sunday?", in English, is an empty statement, because the only answer would be Sunday. You could ask "What day is it today?" and the answer might be "Sunday". There are seven days in the week and one of them is Sunday. You have to refine the question a bit more by saying, for example, what "day of the month is it on Sunday". The best way to say this is is to use the word "date" - eg. "What is the date on Sunday?"
After digging deeper, it turns out that 号 (hào) stands for: ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people. This is according to https://chinese.yabla.com/ Who knew?!!
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English is my second language so I might be mistaken, but I shouldn't "What date is it on Sunday" be accepted as a correct answer?
It is very confused and hard to understand. I would suggest "Which is the date of Sunday?" or "What is Sunday's date?"
I'm really happy with duolingo and this is my first complaint this far. THIS ANSWER IS BAD.
The day is Sunday; what the question should be is what Date of the month is Sunday
To the person that made Q&A. Date implies day, month and in most cases the year.
Concerning days of the week it's quite easy to remember. Just add the number. Very logical.
Sometimes this shows 星期日 and 星系天 as sunday and i dont know if it is correct in both ways
This one is pretty confusing, Sunday is a "day". So are we trying to say "What date is it on Sunday?"
"What is the date on Sunday" or "What is Sunday's date" should be an acceptable answer.
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what day of the month, this does not make sense, it should what date of the month.
Where does "month" come from in this sentence? From my lessons, "Hao 号" represents the "day" in a month (so 5th of December for example). I guess writing this out I can see how it can be interpreted as "day of the month," which would make "month" appropriate in this lesson
DATE OF THE MONTH- not day!! 号 even in earlier examples is described as 'date'. Still not corrected.
This is a stupid answer. It is like which day is Monday? Which date is it on Sunday sounds more accurate... Except there is no choice for "date" in the answer.
I've read through most of the comments and I didn't see this problem. Sorry if I'm resident but there are a lot of comments. I said "What day of the month is on Sunday". I left out 'it'. It marked me wrong. It should have been accepted. 3/22/21
This translation in English doesn't even make sense? Maybe, 'what is the date on Sunday?'
The question in English should have been "What date of the month is it on Sunday?"
This sounds so complicated and hard even for me to understand it, lol. I agree, why can't it be what day is it on sunday for international ppl also to understand it.
What date is on sunday. Ji hao is date. Xingqi ji is day. I kept on losing hearts because of this.
How does "xing qi tian" mean sunday? Or does it even mean Sunday? The structure of this sentence is confusing.
There is mention of month in the sentence then how on earth the english translation mentions it.One simple answer is" what date is it on Sunday"
If it is Wed., Dec.15, today, for example, does the 'Sunday' in the sentence, "星期天几号？" refer to Sunday of this week(Dec. 12), or Sunday of the next week(Dec. 19), or something else like the Sunday which you and I are just talking about? Can we translate the sentence in question into English without knowing about this situation?
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Why they translated it as "What day"? It should be "what date"? What date=几号 What date=星期几
I think, I got a point, I think it in my native language, Bengali. XD
I thought I was learning English, not Chinese. Never heard this sentence in my life. Please Duo fix this, or else I'll never get this sentence right
Добавьте на русский, умоляю. Я уже так задолбалась терять баллы изза незнания английского........
We normally just say "What day is Sunday?" because we know we're talking about the date if we say the day of the week already.
The word date shouldn't be included in the options if dulingo can't accept it.
Person 1"what day of the month is Sunday?" Person 2 "Sunday will be the 9th"
I don't understand a thing in this, can someone explain? Usually it's easy for me to get what mistakes I made but this one just seem..? Idk
I don't understand a thing in this question, really. Also, everyone's talking about the 'date' word, I didn't have that, did duo removed it? (Jan 7 2022)
I dont understand the answer to this question. I answered "What day of the month is Sunday" and was marked correct. That is what the Chinese literally translates to, but its not correct to say in English. Just add the word "date" to the frikkin word bank.
What DAY Is it on Sunday? You kidding md? "What month is December?" Come on
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Rather than make 5 words into 9 words, I would just say, "What is the date Sunday?" (or) "Sunday is what day?"
6/5/18 I appreciate the drag and drop words. My question why is thewors Sundayso.wtimes followed by the word day or the word month? How do I know which one to use?
If you click the lightbulb they say you can use 日 (rì) or 天 (tiān) interchangeably.
Well I really think it is a bit of a laugh to ask what day of the month is Sunday! Because the answer should be SUNDAY....!!!!! And I am sure they do not want that!
