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"你们在哪儿？"
Translation:Where are you?
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Google Translate translated this sentence as 'Where are you from?' (and then, 'Where are you at?' if you click on it). Normally I'd just assume google translate is wrong, but this is in beta and I am a total beginner with Chinese so... is 'Where are you from?' a bad translation or could this sentence be used to ask that?
This never means "Where are you from?" It simply means "Where are you (plural)?"
Could you please tell me why the use (Ni men) here? Why they didnt use only (Ni)here
Because the sentence is in plural. They are talking about "where are you (guys)?"
Eh.. Am a little confuse here,about ni men and ni .I think( ni zai na er) is correct and not (nimen zai na er)or is it your at where?
I believe "where are you from" would be more correctly translated "你是哪国人." Directly meaning "You are what nationality."
The character for "from" looks like ren twice, and it sounds something like "cong". It's funny for me to see that someone else has been using Google to practice writing characters until Duolingo adds that functionality here.
it is something that pops up in the Beijing dialect/speech pattern. We tend to add 儿 to the ending of a lot of words and phrases, and it makes it sound more casual. 哪里 is just as correct.
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哪儿 is also formally part of Modern Standard Mandarin, which is what Duolingo teaches.
Yeah, the first time i did this lesson duo taught me that "you guys" is correct. Now it says that's wrong and it should be "you all". Neither is the correct plural for "you" in English. I get it that they are trying to emphasize the plural aspect, but then it should still accept what it originally taught was correct. While l thought "you guys" was funny and incorrect, still better than "you all", which is southern US slang in this context. Taken literally, "you all" has an entirely different meaning.
Yes, here too, marked wrong but also shown as the correct answer. Question mark usually never made a difference, but here it does?
I hardly ever write the "?", then I did not put it here either and it was wrong.
I did "Where are you guys at" and it was marked wrong. Does this work? Or does it have to be the recommended translation?
It does not know all possible sentences, but i think it should work (though i am a total beginner)
How do you differentiate between 'you guys' and 'you all' ? It put 'you guys' as wrong here.
I put, 'Where are you guys', and duolingo won't accept my answer. I think this answer should be deemed as correct.
Where are you guys? seems like a valid translation, but it was marked wrong.
I wrote, "Where are all of you?" which is equivalent to, "Where are you all?"
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哪 = WHERE 儿= CHILD 哪儿 = WHERE ? 你 们 在 哪 儿？ YOU; PL. IN WHERE CHILD = WHERE ARE YOU ? iT'S VERY STRANGE HOW THE CHINESES BUILD THEY SENTENCES
Indeed. Wait until you see what characters they use for "ham' - another head scratcher.
So the first one, the one i put as the answer was
"Where are you from?"
Which would be understood as
你们在哪国人
Or more specifically
"What country are you from"
And the right answer is
你们在哪儿
"Where are you"
This is asking where are you in general not a specific place so you don't insert a country or place.
I just don't understand why you have to put zai 在 and er 儿 if they both mean "where" according to Duolingo.
I looked it up and even though its telling us its pronounced er this is a compound word of zai na and r
在哪儿 Zainar
R is a retroflux final radical and doesn't have much meaning.
Please correct me if im wrong.
Ni men refers to you as plural right? Ni - you, ni men - you guys. Am I right?
When it is about mandarin/contonese for example,google translate is dumb.sometimes i get the feeling that It's only good at english to english translation lol
