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- "He has a cute face."
"He has a cute face."
Translation:他的脸很可爱。
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When using the symbol boxes (rather than the keyboard option), the boxes only allow for "his face is cute", which isn't the same. There's no "有", for instance.
Duolingo can be so very picky about matching word order sometimes, and then it gives us this one, where the English and Chinese sentences don't really match semantically... this is what I get for trying to work without the word bank
Because 可爱 is an adjective. It can't be the predicate of the sentence by inself (unless you are making a direct comparison).
The English isn't "He has a VERY cute face", it is "He has a cute face". Therefore the given Chinese answer 他的脸很可爱 is NOT correct. It should be 他的脸可爱。
The 很 is there for grammatical reasons. The sentence structure noun is adjective (e.g. the cat is sad) needs "很" as "is". It is then not necessarily understood as " very". If you want to express someone is very cute, use 非常 or 真
很 doesn't mean very in this case. I'm not sure about the grammatical terms, but it fills the same function as 是 does in some other sentences, but 是 is for nouns and 很 is for adjectives.
很 doesn't just mean "very", it is grammatical and is used to connect noun + adjective, otherwise it will sound like you're comparing something, like "his face is cute...but someone else's isn't").
Chinese frequently supplies 很 even when English speakers wouldn't say very
Although "hen" literally translates into "very", it doesn't really strengthen the adjective in Chinese. It is only there to make the sentence sound better.
Often times 很 is used like "is" in English. 我很好 is closer in meaning to "I am fine" than "I am really good." If you want to really stress something you can use the word 非常 (fei chang) to mean "very" or "extremely."
