"她的丈夫下个星期会在纽约。"
Translation:Her husband will be in New York next week.
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Is there a trick to knowing when 会 is translated as will v.s. might or can? Sometimes it's important to know if "He WILL be in New York next week" or if "He CAN be in New York next week."
when we're talking about the future, I think 会 always translates to "will." However, 会 can also be a verb that means "to know (how to)" which is maybe where you're confusing about "can" comes from? For example 我会跳舞 means "I know how to dance/I can dance" but it's a different meaning altogether.
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I think it also depends on the context. Swansae's example 我会跳舞 certainly means "I know how to dance" by itself, but i think it could also mean "I will dance" if it is, say, the answer to the question "What will you do tomorrow at the talent competition?"
That said, when combined with the word 在, which is like the prepositions in/at/on, 会 usually means "will" rather than "to know how to," as it doesn't make much sense to say "I know how to be in New York." To express "I can be in New York," I think one would use 可以 instead.
Pretty sure 'hui' never means 'can' when paired with positional/travel/existential type verbs that aren't skills/actions. Will go, will be, will arrive vs will/can walk, will/can fly, will/can run. Perhaps it's assumed one always knows how to exist and be places. "Know(s) how" is a probably a more precise translation than just "can." 'Can go' would be 'ke yi qu.'
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会xx means something will happen but not happen yet. Also "下个星期" means future tense would be use in sentences.
会 only means "can" in the sense of ability to do a learned skill, such as being able to cook, to drive, to swim, to knit, to speak a certain lamguage.
"Next week, her husband will be in New York." is semantically the same, is there any reason why this answer isn't accepted?
Why does the 下个 xia4ge4 sound more like jia4ge4 here? Is that a Beijing dialect thing?
I wrote, "Next week her husband will be in New York"....seems like it's the same meaning
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You can submit that as 'my answer should be accepted'. I've gotten a couple replies from Duolingo that approved my requests for things like that. Then Duo will (usually) give the original as an alternate correct sentence while still marking yours as correct.
I suppose yes. Just now saw "明年" to mean next year. So I suppose your preposition is correct
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Actually No, you can say 明年 as next year, 明天 as tomorrow, but nwxt week should use 下周/下星期.
会 only means 'can' in the sense of 'knows how to'. 会在 pretty much always means 'will be (at)'.
I had 'Next week her husband will be in New York' and it was wrong I realize my mistake, would the way I wrote in English only work if the time was written before like "下个星期她的丈夫会在纽约" instead?
I mean... you can put "Next week" in front right? (My first language is Chinese and not English but I think you can.)
Maybe you should report it. Btw why are people downvoting this comment. Tamarawill698027 is just asking a question
Because that isn't correct English grammar to start with. To day he "is in" implies that he's already in New York.
I provided exactly the same translation but it was not accepted as the correct one...
At, in english, implies you're at a much more specific place than that. At someone's house, or at the park, or at a restaurant, but not at a town or at a country - you are in New York, never at it.
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"Her husband, next week, will be in New York" was not accepted. Adverbial phrases in English are pretty free, so this needs to be fixed!
I said "Her husband next week will be at New York" and it says that my answer is wrong, but isn't it pretty much the same? Just the order of the sentence that's different?
As a native English speaker, it sounds extremely unnatural to me & while it's grammatically correct, would only be used in very narrow circumstances (if at all). I think it's rare for time phrases to come between subject and verb
Minor error on duolingo i think; Tapping on 会 in this sentence shows that it means "she'll" when the subject is actually her husband. Not her. Confused me for a sec.
why is "her husband is going to new york next week" wrong? also why does zai, 在, sometimes translate to live in these translations. am i missing something?
It just says that he will be there next week but it doesn't say he is going next week. Maybe he is going this week.
I think you might be confusing 在 (zai) with 住 (zhù) which means "to live"
I think the people who downvoted you don't understand your comment.
I personally think it's about the sun. The sun comes up before noon 上午 and goes down after noon 下午.
I answered "will be able to be in New York" because I have know 会's meaning is "can". The "correct answer here was "I am going to be in NY'. I don't know if I'd get it correct if I put "will be in NY", but the reason why "I'm going to be" is chosen as the correct one is because the speaker has a firm-sounding plan (= I know I'll be there) to do that, which sounds a bit firmer that saying "I'll be there", I assume. Is that correct?
会 only means "can" or "be able to" when referring to learned skills. Also, "going to" is not more certain than "will".
会 means can as in able to. For example, 我会用筷子 or "I am able to use chopsticks"
I can speak Chinese, and it's just weird like how I submitted this and got it wrong: Her spouse is in New York next Sunday
They're making sure you actually know what husband actually is. Besides, is it really so hard to just type husband instead?
