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"他早上六点十五分喝咖啡。"
Translation:He drinks coffee at 6:15 in the morning.
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I remember it as:
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Early Morning - 早上
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Late Morning - 上午
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Noon - 中午
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Afternoon - 下午
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Evening - 晚上
The first and the last end with 上 and the middle three end with 午
Mein Eindruck ist, dass 早上 nur die frühen Morgenstunden kurz nach dem Aufstehen umfasst und die beiden daher nicht gänzlich deckungsgleich sind.
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I think of 上午 and 下午 more like how we use AM and PM. 早上 and 晚上 are more like English's morning and evening.
早上 is very early morning (like 6am in this case), 上午 is just morning (so 9-11)
Zaoshang is early morning, until like 9 AM. After that from 10-12, you'd use Shangwu.
I was given the audio version and was supposed to type out the sentence. I wrote 她 instead of 他 and got marked wrong! If given the audio version, both genders of 'ta' should be accepted!
This is ambiguous on whether it's AM or PM though, whereas the Chinese phrase is not
It is repetitious since "am" and "in the morning" means the same things. You normally only put one or the other, so I am not surprised if it was not accepted.
"He had coffee at six-fifteen in the morning" should also be an acceptable3 answer.
This is my biggest problem with Chinese on Duo: the audio lessons. He and she are pronounced the same exact way, and there is no way to tell in this sentence, yet I keep getting sentences like this wrong by saying she instead of he (and v.v.).
If they want to say "a quarter past" wouldn't it be "一刻", and 早上六点十五分 would be 6:15 a.m.
十五分 and 一刻 are both correct. they both mean :15. Whichever you feel more comfortable using.
Chinese has no tenses. I said "drank" and it was marked wrong... oh well it's still in beta
"He drinks coffee at 6:15 in the morning." This was the answer that was shown, but isn't my answer and the actual answer the same but written in a different way?
I also answered that and it was marked wrong. Maybe they want us to distinguish between 早上 which is used more like "morning" and 上午 which is more like AM? But I'm not sure if a native Mandarin speaker would make such a strong distinction.
It might be the way you expressed the time. I recall another post that said Duo likes a ":" in the time as in "6:15 am". Even if that is not true I think you need a space before the "am".
Shouldn't this be 他早上六点刻喝咖啡 ? Because 十五分 sounds to literally translated. 刻 is translated as a quarter of an hour. I find this more neutral sounding
6:15 mornings is the same as 6:15 in the morning when referring to habitual action. This should be accepted
7/24/18 Why is the word for minutes included? Earlier when we did time minutes were not included. What's the signifigance of including it now? (Thanks)
分 This is the word I mean. When do we use it anf when don't we use it. Or is it completely optional?
In the morning at 6:15 he drinks coffee. That is grammatically correct English, so why it is not the translation I can only imagine. People use language in myriad ways, so why jump through hoops when you can walk a straight line?
I used "He drinks coffee 6.35 in the morning" (i.e. did not have 'at' in there). I think this still should be correct.
Whatis wrong with "He drinks coffee at 6:15 in the morning" which in my understanding has the same meaning!! Yes or no??
Oh no, I missed the "at", well then I obviously didn't understand the sentence in chinese at all. It's English grammar I'm here to refine after all, thank you Duo
Chinese is such a beautiful and lovely sounding language. I like how everything has a pattern and backstory behind it. What a nice language, I'm happy to be learning. My unknown accent takes a toll on pronunciation though.
There is no difference between "she" and "he" in Chinese landuage, so why the system give me wrong, if I used "she...morning" (the system show me right answer like "he...morning") ???!!!
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We just would not say that word order in English. We would say either "At 6:15 in the morning, he drinks coffee" or "He drinks coffee at 6:15 in the morning."
We can and do use this phrase order in English, but typically in writing. "He, at 6:15 in the morning, drinks coffee." The time is non-essential, parenthetical information.
it makes me sad that "he drinks his coffee at 6:15 in the morning" was considered an incorrect response, but I suppose it's plausible that he is going around drinking other peoples coffee, COFFEE THEIF!!
