"医院在这儿吗？"
Translation:Is the hospital here?
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I am Chinese,my English is bad, but I can reply your question,if my grammar have some problem,please reply me,thank you. In Taiwan and HongKong you must use the traditional,because the most of people use the traditional Chinese.You can use the simplified Chinese in Guangzhou,Beijing,Shanghai and so on.But some Chinese can know your mean when you say something wrong.
Finally I recommend you use the simplified Chinese .because the most Chinese use it,and write it easily.
I hope my reply can help you.
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That's right, although, if you're fluent in (reading) one it's not too difficult to learn to read the other; much easier than learning (to read) Chinese at least!
@cranan i hope this helps ^_^ { I am Chinese. My English is bad, but I can reply to your question. If my grammar has any problems, please reply to me, thank you. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, you must use traditional, because most people use traditional Chinese. You can use simplified Chinese in Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai etc. and most people can understand what you mean when you say something wrong. (don't start sentences with but)
(Ultimately / Overall) I recommend you use simplified Chinese because the majority of Chinese people use it and write it easily.
I hope my reply can help you. }
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I got it marked wrong when translating this way as well. I'll look into it more
I think the less natural a sentence sounds, the more difficult it is to translate. It's a hospital. It's huge. If it's "here," you can't miss it.
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"Is the hospital here" just sounds spaced-out weird. If you are in the building and not sure, it would be "Is this the hospital?". If you don't see the building itself it's obviously not "here", other than in an assumed location or existence sense. We would expect "Is there a hospital here" when context wants general existence, or "Is there a hospital located around here" to mean nearby.
My answer was 'Is there a hospital here?' and marked incorrect. I am wondering why my answer is inncorrect...
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Taken in isolation, it is to be translated as though the speaker thinks there is a hospital in the general vicinity, for example.
That answer should also be accepted, since it basically means the same thing.
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No. To my ears this English sentence should be translated as 这儿有医院吗.
But, if you ask “Is a doctor here?” then the sentence 医生在这儿吗 should be fine, as a hospital is static but a doctor can be a moving target.
I translated as "Is there a hospital here?" I feel like that is more natural in English.
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I feel like those two sentences are somewhat different. "Is the hospital here?" puts focus on the hospital (it assumes a hospital exists), but "Is there a hospital here?" puts focus on "here" (and it doesn't assume that a hospital exists). I think the original Chinese sentence puts more focus on the hospital, so it's better translated as "Is the hospital here?". I think "Is there a hospital here" in Chinese would be something like 这儿有医院吗？. That's just my guess.
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Disregard my previous post, this one is "here" not "there". My bad. How can i delete that post?
I wrote "is the hospital here" and was marked incorrect. It said the answer should be "Is the hospital here?" I don't use punctuation or capital letters and it usually doesn't mark my answers incorrect.
Could "Is this the hospital?" also be correct? If not, how would you say that?
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This Chinese sentence should be better interpreted as “Is the hospital nearby / in this region?”
Your sentence should be “这(儿) 就是 医院吗”. Here “就是 jiù shì, exactly” is used to ask for confirmation (because you are asking about a specific hospital — the hospital?).
So the previous question was 饭馆在那儿吗？ I put "Is the restaurant there" they count wrong saying that it should be "Is the restaurant here" and in this question it's the opposite... I am so disappointed in Duolingo.
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"Is the hospital over there" still not accepted as of 7/21/2018, even though someone posted it was accepted here, and for me it was also accepted on an identical question.
