"我只有八百块。"
Translation:I only have 800 Yuan.
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I have omited "GOT" - and DL marked it "wrong". As I get known from the other discussions - here is a problem between British English and American English. But it should be consistent - in many cases the American English (without GOT) is prefered, so why not here? I have reported it.
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Your answer actually more correct, syntactically. I answered the other way so as not to challenge the algorithm. :) Cheers
快 is a classifier for money, so technically all currency should work, but since this is a chinese lessons, having other currencies shouldn't be neccesary, it would be a big mistake to allow dollars or pound, because theyn you have to add all currencies as well, which is too many. But please at least allow "rmb", "renminbi" and these...
Dollar isn't correct. You wouldn't say 块 when talking about any other currency.
I've heard 块 used colloquially for the local currency in many countries, including USD.
块 kuai is used for spoken language and 元 yuan is used for written. Similarly, when describing the tenth place (like 0.5rmb) you would say 五毛 wu mao, where as you would write 五角 wu jiao. The hundreths place (like 0.05 rmb) is written and spoken as 五分 wu fen.
五毛 is also the name given to people who are paid by the Chinese government to post postive information about the CCP on the internet.
In Britain we say pounds and quid and they are the same currency, this is how it's working
我只有八百塊。
Of course if you say this in Taiwan it mostly means "NT dollar," and if you say this when traveling to Japan this can mean "JP yen," etc.
"I have only 800 yuan" is soooo much different than "I only have 800 yuan"....
块 it is just "money" (so, it might be used for any currency), whereas 元 literally means "Yuan" and can be applied to the Chinese currency "yuan" (RMB) only.
The grammatically correct: "I have only 800 yuan." marked wrong, while Duo tells me I have missed a word and should use the grammatically poor: "I have only got 800 Yuan." :(
只 is tone 3 for "only." The speakers are using tone 1, which means "single."
The audio says "kuai" while the answer says "Yuan" . Do kuai and yuan mean the same thing?
Not quite, "kuai" is used a bit like "bucks" in english. Its an american term, but one might use it to refer to different currencies, like how I use "bucks" to refer to Polish złoty when in Poland.
