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"我的女儿明年会住在英国。"
Translation:My daughter will live in the UK next year.
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I think we can argue about whether UK and England are the same thing, but it's unacceptable that "United Kingdom" was not accepted. Reported.
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Haha. The Chinese may not distinguish in Mandarin, but the Scots (苏格兰人), Welsh (威尔士人), Northern Irish (北爱尔兰人) and even some English ;) do in English.
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What about Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland then when you use "England" word. So use only UK in this case.
is the article "the" really necessary? will the sentence be wrong without it?
If you mean the in "the UK" then yes it is necessary in English. As with The United States, The United Arab Emirates. "The United" is a group of countries/ states/ emirates - so it's different to an individual country name (you wouldn't say 'The England' or 'The Scotland' or 'The America'. )
Confusingly Chinese doesn't have a separate word for England - it is still 英国, which also means the UK. But Chinese does have separate words for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (the other countries which make up the UK).
Yes, and "联合王国" Liánhé wángguó (literally "united kingdom") can also be used, but it's a bit formal and 英国 is much more common.
Not in daily spoken English.Nobody I know would use "the" unless british or Englush majors.
- 1827
Couldn't disagree more. I have never heard anyone in the English-speaking world say, "Oh, Prince Harry is from UK," or "I'm proud to live in US."
As a native of the US, I agree completely with mjhillman06. No fluent English speaker says UK or US without adding 'the' before.
My daughter will be living in the UK next year. - not accepted, it wanted 'will live in'.
The correct term is 'the UK' in the same way as 'the USA' . However, it is not really relevant as far as the meaning of the sentence is concerned. My daughter is going to live in (the) UK next year. If you miss out 'the' everybody would understand the meaning.
How come "My daughter next year will live in the UK." is wrong? Is it because of my English/Chinese grammar mistake or its a choice that Duolingo did not think of?
- 1827
I don't think your English grammar is technically wrong, but placing "next year" where you placed it in the sentence does sound out of place to a native ear. The following sound more natural:
Next year, my daughter will live in the UK.
My daughter will live next year in the UK.
My daughter will live in the UK next year.
"My daughter will live in UK next year" should be correct. It should be accepted. There are some other questions that are marked as incorrect when it should be right.
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Word order placing "in the UK" earlier should not be rejected. English permits varird word orfers, sometimes for subtle shadings of meaning.
I hope someone can correct me on this. So google and duo don't agree, and from what I've seen on some grammar checker's they don't care. What I've found via google translate:
"My daughter will live in the UK next year." => "我的女儿明年将住在英国"
"My daughter lives in the UK next year" => "我女儿明年住在英国"
将 is the thing that is causing a problem. Unfortunately, it is the character that is making the verb future tense.(1) There could be two options to fix this. Because you either would have to dumb down the English to the point that you don't use a lot of the vocabulary supplied. Or you would have to include 将 as apart of this section. Which might be too much for one section.
Before you complain about the other difference, it's cool you can refer to close relations as 我的弟弟 or 我弟弟. Just like you would hit your brother/sister, but you wouldn't hit a stranger.
1: https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_future_with_%22jiang%22
google translate can be helpful for finding terms but it is very bad at accurately translating sentences.
the time is supposed to go before the subject so it would be 明年我的女儿会住在英国。 also 英国 does translate to England. it may also translate to the UK but a better translation of the UK is 联合王国.
Does anyone have an issue that they can't hear the words when they hit the play icon? I seem to have that problem.
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"My daughter next year will live in the UK." This should be accepted as an answer. Why it isn't is a puzzle that can only be explained by ignorance.
How would you differentiate between "My daughter will live in the UK next year." and "My daughter might live in the UK next year." ?
In this sentence speaking of the future 会and要 are equally correct but Chinese normally speak vague and without certainty but it doesn't mean that they are not certain of a outcome 会 in this sentence is used to do a task in the future and the grammar clarifies that it will happen but 要can also be used with or without the same certainty and is still correct. Chinese people assume much meaning unless they need to clarify. 要is much more likely to be used here and if someone thought that it was a desire rather then a sure thing because the context didn't tell them then they will ask . But yea 要 is(to want) and sounds less certain to a English speaker but not so in Chinese on the context of future tasks..the same thing with 要vs 想they both can mean (to want) but 想is literally (to think) but its used more often cuz they dont see it as being less certain but rather Chinese speak more vaguely in comparison to English speakers and its ok to say
Yes it is. I have never used "the uk" but apparently, the probably, chinese translators at duo think that it can only be "the". Sigh...
It seems that Duo does not a lot of English translations that are actually correct. I have to think of the meaning and then how Duo thinks it should be translated as a number of correct answers are considered as mistakes. Slightly irritating to have to worry about the English when I am trying to focus on Chinese.
Why are we using 会住 for "will live" when 会 means "can, see, meet"?
("will" was not one of the previous listed translations on Duolingo, nor on Google Translate)
They are adding 会住 as in "could live" meaning. Not truly incorrect just not exactly correct as it was not phrased like that in English..I think more of a you can do it this way too. This sort of inconsistency is quite common in this course.I guess it encourages independent research and engagement here in the forum.
What is the difference between 明年, 去年， and 下个年? Are they interchangeable?
I hate that they put it this way .so confusing. You can either do pronouns then time or time then pronounce. Staying the time ¹st is way easier. 明年我的女儿要住在英国。 or you can say (会) to specifically state that its on the sure future amd not just a desire but 要can be used to state something you will do
i wrote 'my daughter will live in UK next year' and the answer said 'my daughter will live in "the" UK next year'
Why I cannot omit "the" ? I believe tah teh sentence "My daughter will live in UK next year" is still correct!
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The country is called "the UK" or "the United Kingdom" in the English-speaking world (as far as I, an American, am aware).
