"这些鱼非常贵。"

Translation: These fish are very expensive.

[TheYellowKid90]

Really and very are interchangeable

[JPSeaton]

I tried extraordinarily as a joke... The joke was on me of course!

[anu340625]

So are 'costly' and 'expensive'

[Sebba1983]

How do I know that it is plural?

[Kenn339668]

The character 些 implies a few.

[marttimo]

些 indicates a plural. 这 "this" becomes "these" when combined with 些

[OsoGegenHest]

些 means "group".

[Hsn626796]

Nice

[JacobAnder850243]

why is there no verb connecting 鱼 and 贵？Does 非常 act the same as 很？

[kcmurphy]

Yes. (It's an adverb, btw, not a verb)

[Hsn626796]

Can this be 天 ?

[Hei1long2]

Could 非常 be translated as extraordinarily? I saw that 非 can be a morpheme equivalent to "not" in some words and 常 could be common. So 非常 = not commom (not ordinary) or extraordinary.

[CNep16]

非常 and 很 are the same, to my knowledge. There may be some nuance to native speakers where 非常 may have a bit more impact, but no teacher has ever pointed that out to me

[Sinologue]

These fish are really expensive

[Tianshenlang]

will ' These fish are too expensive' be okay?

[Hin646044]

should be: these fishes are very expensive

[Slade366]

Fish is one of those strange words in English where you don't change the word whether there's 1 of them or 100.

https://www.theenglishspace.com/grammar/nouns/irregular-plural-list.html

[Comitatensis]

god I didn't know that... thanks

[laszlo914063]

Hm, I had to learn Chinese to know this strange role about fishes.... pardon, fish!

[Ann55075]

in that case you can't use "these"?

[ASZ18101849]

Yes, you can. "These fish" is perfectly correct grammatically. "This fish" is not correct for this sentence (although it is grammatical).

[kcmurphy]

"Fish" can be singular or plural.

"Fishes" means, specifically, more than one type of fish. It is also unusual in everyday speech.

E.g. "There are many fish in that school." (There are many of the same kind of fish)

"There are many fishes in that aquarium." (There are many kinds of fish on display)

[deactivated user]

Joy to the world,
To all the boys and girls
Joy to the FISHES in the deep blue sea,
Joy to you and me!

[LeiFeiRalf]

Best fishes to you too.

[Hsn626796]

:)

[Tsen107548]

Bing! That a 3 year old lingot...

[Hsn626796]

Why is it not 这些个鱼 ??

[ASZ18101849]

Because of the 些, the 个 is not needed. Plus, 个 is singular.

[Clara604861]

These fish are quite expensive.

[janevivian]

What do people think about the interchangeability between "so" and "very"? In English and in this context, they mean the same thing. Duolingo flagged my answer using "so."

[Edward244690]

Why is "these are very expensive fish" wrong?

[chetlin]

The subject is 这些鱼, "these fish". Your sentence's subject is just "these". Your sentence would be 这些是非常贵的鱼 I believe (assuming you can use 这些 as a subject).

[Deirdre984771]

Impossible to use word bank as "sound waves" over words prevent their use. Could this please be addressed.

[krt]

Why can't you say, "The fish is really expensive"?

[ASZ18101849]

Because the 些 indicates that the sentence is plural.

[krt]

I understand that, but in English "fish"can mean one or more fish.

[ASZ18101849]

You have to say "the fish are", not "the fish is".

[rudy469537]

How come the fish is singular instead of fishes

[Tsen107548]

Fish is usually the plural form of fish. There are a couple of exceptions but they are quite obscure. The first is biblical and song writing. The phrase "Bread and fishes and a jug of red wine" for example and the next being biology.

A specific example here can be given as diving. Upon returning they might ask "What did you see?"

You could respond "I saw four fish", which could mean four individual fish they may or may not belong to the same species. It may even be four fish in one shoal. Where as if you saw four shoals of fish that were different species or just our individual species of fish you could say, "I saw four fishes".

[JaiMaungHtun]

Can put "太" instead of "非常"?