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- "希望你能跟妻子一起来。"
"希望你能跟妻子一起来。"
Translation:Hope you can come with your wife.
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That's what I'm saying, maybe I'm wrong, but i don't see any character for "together"
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The two charcters 一起 here means together, but that said "I hope you can come with your wife" should be accepted, the "together" is implicit and need not be included
'hopefully you can...' should also he acceptable. I wpuld say it's better English as well rather than just 'Hope that...'
I wrote "I hope your wife can come with you." That should also be correct. if you say "with your wife," adding "together" is redundant and unnecessary in English.
In Chinese, understood relationships can be more simply stated than in English - (not likely you would go with someone else's wife) it's the same for (你的)爸爸,妈妈,妹妹, 孩子 etc.
"I hope you and your wife can come." Accepted. I will say that duo's flexibility increases pretty quickly based on feedback
Are they hoping that he brings his wife or are they hoping both of them come?
"I hope you are able to come with your wife." is wrong? Seriously? I won't get into the details here between 会/能/可以 but this is a perfectly acceptable English translation of the sentence.
I have answered 'Hope your wife can come with you' which was accepted. I think this implies that the person who is tagging along is 'you' while 'your wife' if suposed to come anyway. The official translation implies otherwise in my opinion. 'You' would come anyway and presence of 'your wife' is uncertain. Are both translations for this sentence correct and impled in the Chinese sentence or is it just Duolingo being lenient on wrod order?
“I hope your wife can come with you.” implies that you are coming anyway and the hope is that your wife can also.
I’m not quite so sure about the Chinese sentence but it seems that the emphasis is so much on doing it -together- that it could just as easily mean you’re both coming anyway but the hope is that you do it together. Certainly, I have heard it used in the context where you are expected to come and the person speaking wants to also invite your wife.
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Is this more like "You of course are coming, I hope you can bring your wife," or "Your wife of course is coming, I hope you can too"?
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You can't start an English sentence with "Hope you...". It's not grammatical! You either need to say "Hopefully you..." or "I hope that you..."
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You can, in the context of a conversation. The same way this sentence is used mainly for conversation.
A language course should not teach colloquial language before the proper language
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This language course isn't teaching English at all.
Also, what register is taught can and should depend on what the learner needs to do.
It’s a little bit regional (dialect) but widely used and understood, I agree that you should report it so they can add it as an option. It’s a good translation.
Along vs together...rejected. The initial match seems usually transliteration and rigid match until better flexibility is crowdsourced. I appreciate the app, but not the pain of bad/lazy first efforts.
I hate to say it, but there is a service in having people not confused where folks suddenly start laughing or blushing at their non-first-language comments...but that shouldn't mean you alwats have to avoid those phrases.
