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"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.
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...
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.
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.
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." :(
"I have only 800 yuan" is soooo much different than "I only have 800 yuan"....
If we include the dollar we would have to also include all of the world's currencies so let us stick to the most predictable answer in a Chinese course: the currency used in China.
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How is "I only have 800 RMB" not correct? RMB is one of the refrigerator magnet choices.
Duo says I missed a word and I assume it's the word "got" but it's not even among the options. I would have used it but it's just not there )))
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Even though it's a Chinese lesson, here's an English one:
The adverb 'only' stresses the noun or verb you place it with.
"I only have 800 yuan" - you are the single person who has 800 yuan, no one else
"I have only 800 yuan - you have this amount of money and no more
It can also stress a phrase, but this is in context. In written form, especially in examples, placement matters.
Your intention is correct, but your first example is incorrect. In English, you'd have to say "Only I have 800 Yuan" if you meant "you are the single person who has 800 Yuan, no one else." Your two examples both would be interpreted the same way, the meaning "I have this amount of money but no more."
i have too many lingots. if you want one, reply to this comment with how many you want (must be 5 or under)
