"Is the restaurant there?"

Translation: 饭馆在那儿吗？

[aristocr8s]

Would it be correct to say it as 饭馆在不在那儿？

[Keith_APP]

It is correct.

[Gelukservaring]

But 'zai' is not a verb!?

[BeverlyMay3]

I thought tha when you used nar you didn't use ma. How do I know when to use it? Earlier i didn't use it and it was correct

[Allan870624]

why isn't 饭馆儿 accepted? That's what I learned and it's what I thought I heard often while living 3 years in Beijing. It's also what my Chinese keyboard suggests.

[purplelotus88]

儿 ending is a Beijing thing. Not all Mandarin speakers use this and its not necessary. It's not accepted because Duolingo's tests aren't very good or robust, lol, it should be.

[MikeSulf]

Would 饭馆在那吗 be an appropriate response or is the 儿 a necessity?

[KX3.]

It is definitely not a necessity and both ways are good, although people also substitute the 儿 with 里, which is a way of checking if someone is a 北方人 i.e. from the north, or a 南方人 i.e. from the south, which includes Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and the diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore etc.

[DiwakarDat]

饭馆在哪儿吗？
why this is marked wrong?

[purplelotus88]

Your sentence is asking "where" the restaurant is, 哪, not "there", 那.

[DiwakarDat]

谢谢

[fRNRnIy5]

Would it be acceptable to use, "饭馆那儿吗?", leaving out the 在?