"王医生有五个妹妹。"

Translation: Doctor Wang has five younger sisters.

[JJUwPv]

I dont listen "five" in this sentence.

[Luciano490662]

王医生有五个妹妹。
Wáng yīshēng yǒu wǔ gè mèimei.

wǔ = five

[giacomo330203]

Yes, I agree that "wu" is indeed written in the Chinese sentence, but if you listen to it, you cannot hear it. There is just like a pause after "you". Is there some rule according to which some sounds are grouped together?
P.S. sorry for the lack of tones, but I haven't figured out yet how to type them in.

[CX948]

(You can just type in the accent numbers. That's what I do.) I don't think the sounds of Chinese are actually grouped together. I just think that for some reason, the audio is fast.

[CX948]

PS: Accent 1 is falt tone; Accent two is up tone; Accent 3 is the falling then rising tone; Accent 4 is the falling tone; and accent 5 is the neutral tone.

[JackJones2411]

There is, its lower than the other characters

[MalBrood]

sounds like a run-on rather than 2 separate words; "youuuow".

[o5XB3Au2]

I can only hear it if I'm using headphones on high volume. The 五 after 有 sounds very soft almost inaudible.

[BenGarrett6]

Poor guy

[fallingleaf_271]

Lol I agree.

[tu.8zPhL7jn1gj98]

个 is a classifier for people (or indefinite pronoun a/an), right ? Why it is written "loaves" (breads word equivalent if my english is good enough) ?

[tu.8zPhL7jn1gj98]

According some answers provided on a Discord server, 个 is both a classifier and loaves...

[Pietro460054]

Yeah, chinese has got a lot of weird synonims.

[VinnyBunby]

个 is a generic classifier. It can classify people, bread, tools and many other things I'd they don't have a more appropriate classifier. It can translate to "loaf" because loaf is an English classifier for bread. (Unless you usually buy bread by the gram? But I go to the shop to buy a load of bread.)

[TJabraao]

Does anybody really have 5 brothers/sisters nowadays in China, with the one child law?

[ToghrulNH]

Unlikely

[Max831998]

I've not seen such a large family in my year - so far - in China, but it's worth noting that: (1) the one child policy no longer applies; (2) I have heard from rural Chinese that the policy was never really enforced in rural areas - almost every Chinese person I've spoken to in rural areas have at least one sibling.

[YuhoF]

I envy him

[hassan82]

Lol

[Kaly2898]

i write 王医生有5个妹妹 but it didnt work :(

[BW58j5]

i wrote number "5 " instead of "five"

[Daniel733835]

The audio pauses instead of producing the sound for 五.

[SaraKnudso]

I am missing what creates "older/younger" Is it the qualifier that is showing as "loaves"?

[MalBrood]

妹妹 = younger sister
弟弟 = younger brother
姐姐 = older sister
哥哥 = older brother
个 is a noun counter, used for people, such as 一个人， one person. i have no idea what it's relationship to 'loaf' is.

[Hot_Pot]

Chinese has separate words for older/younger brother/sister. 妹妹 means 'younger sister'.

[Deceptiquan]

I can't stop laughing at this