"你会买哪件衣服？"

Translation: Which piece of clothing will you buy?

[EddieTorre13]

Piece of clothing shouldnt be in here at all, not a great english sentence

[mFx888]

'Piece of clothing' is fine, but could also be 'item of clothing' or 'garment' or 'article of clothing'

[DesmondAllen]

'piece of clothing' is grammatically fine but no one would ever say it because we would always refer to the type of clothing being considered. Who ever goes into a shop and says to the assistant, 'I want to buy some clothes'?

[CinnamonTe1]

What you said is mostly true. However, if someone was trying to decide between 3 different items (skirt, dress, and shirt), the sales assistant would say "which item(s) are you going to buy?" They wouldn't be able to refer to just one type of clothing in their question. Saying "clothing items" or just "pieces" would also sound more natural.

[hanhbk]

Makes sense

[Patrick_Dark]

I don't think "garment" makes sense since no classifier is involved with that word. I just reported "Which article of clothing will you buy?" though, which is still rejected.

[Fekkezaum]

Chinese breaks Duolingo. We probably would need not one translation but two. One that makes sense and is natural, and one that's more literal and helps understand how the Chinese sentence is structured. And we don't need either/or, we need both.

[ChaosScroll]

The importance of "na" intonation!

[Madeleine986]

What's the difference between 哪件 and 哪个？

[sadfhrw]

个 is the "universal" measure word, while 件 (jian) is the most appropriate one to be used for 衣服。

[umikujira]

Please define "衣服" in English. in some sentence, the answer should be "Clothing", the other is "Clothes".

[JOrlando3]

It's both. Clothes and clothing are both 衣服。

[Gabrielle145359]

Both. Either.

[karen993304]

Article of clothing is better than piece of clothing.

[Kivolamuzikisto]

"Which article of clothing will you buy" was just accepted for me.

[PoArLin]

"Which clothing will you buy?" was accepted

[scatophage]

Couldn't this be "Which piece of clothing can you by"?

[Keith_APP]

No, as buying is not considered a skill in general.

[JOrlando3]

In this sentence, 会 refers to the future, which is why it says "are you going to," but in other sentences, yes, 会 can mean "able to."

[Hsn626796]

Can't itb mean ability in terms of expenses, as in " can you buy... " ?

[Gabrielle145359]

No. 会 means "can" in terms of learned skills, such as being able to drive, being able to cook, being able to speak a certain language.

[Panchete1]

Would the sentence "你会买什么件衣服？" be correct?

[Keith_APP]

Haha, no. But it's creative.

[Panchete1]

Thanks for the reply :)

[WoyenSan]

I agree for asking "what" rather than "which"

[Monica-Sheng]

You can say 你会买什么衣服？meaning what clothes are you going to buy. (It is not the intended sentence，and it's not specific about particular piece).

[SteveCarre3]

why no 吗?

[WoyenSan]

哪件 indicates "which" + measure word for clothing + 衣服

你会哪件衣服

[MichaelChr654066]

Is "pieces" not acceptable here?

[Keith_APP]

Arguably no. In Chinese if we talk about pieces of clothes in 1 set we would say 一套衣服, rather than 一件衣服; For pieces of clothes to be worn separately, some clothes 一些衣服. So 哪件衣服 is most likely referring to 1 piece of clothes only.

[rajul285485]

Piece of clothing = dress. Dui bu dui

[Gabrielle145359]

不对。Piece of clothing can be any single item of clothing: a dress, a pair of pants, a shirt, a sock, even a hat.

[Elaine1950]

What is wrong with... Will you buy that piece of clothing??

[Gabrielle145359]

The Chinese word in this sentence is 哪 "which", not 那 "that". The question being asked is an open-ended question. Your question is a yes/no question.

[hdDlD]

Which clothing are you going to buy was marked wrong.

[leowtyx]

WOULD

Should also be correct!

[MarcelHola]

What clothing do you will buy?

[kcmurphy]

You can't use "do" and "will" together like this.

[alane113]

Who uses 'garments' except for those in the garments industry?

[whiskers3]

"Which clothing item will you buy?" Why didn't that work?

[Andrew-Lin]

你會買哪件衣服？
In Taiwan, "yīfú" is much more common than "yīfu".

[Tiffany873655]

I feel like "Which clothing piece will you buy" should also be acceptable

[maximiIiaan]

How about which clothing piece...?

[CarlosFred743192]

Why "Which pieces of clothing will you buy?" is wrong?

[Gabrielle145359]

If it meant "pieces" plural, I believe the measure word would be 些, not 件.

[mingmd]

Happily,I got marked right for: "Which clothes are you going to buy?" ... which sounds a little more like normal English.

[Sidney888]

Which clothes would you buy?

[gamayunov.anton]

Why 你想买什么衣服？is not accepted?

[WoyenSan]

Chinese don't speak that way

[LiXueLong1]

Item or article of clothing in English, surely? Do you say 'piece of clothing' in American? ;-)

[Hung-The.Tiger]

' Which dress will you buy?' was not accepted.

[Zach2022]

Which clothing piece will you buy is the SAME THING!

[SlickSims20]

no which in this sentence

[MozJames]

I think "piece of clothing" is fine if you're being vague about what kind of clothes you're talking about.
Same way you could say "I have several pieces of art in my living room"

[Ibrokhim207193]

Somehow doesn't make sense in English, I'd never guess I could make a sentence like that