"不要喝酒！"
Translation:Don't drink alcohol!
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I saw somewhere the character 别 be used to mean "don't", can this be used here?
Can this ever be taken as "i don't drink alcohol" or no? Same with other statements like this.
You'll usually still need the subject for that to make sense: 我不要喝酒 (I don't want to drink alcohol) or 我不喝酒 (I don't drink alcohol). Otherwise, like English, it's implied that you are talking about someone else like a command rather than about yourself.
I also think so, I used sentence like this when i was in china as "i dont (want) to drink alocohol"
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It should be, but I was rejected. Honestly doesn't the bot have a proper English dictionary?
Is 酒 specifically wine, beer, etc. or is it only considered as "alcohol"? I answered "Don't drink wine!" Is it incorrect?
酒 means alcohol. 啤酒 means beer. The terms that Duo uses for white wine and red wine (白酒 and 红酒) are criticized by many people in the forums, (including me, since when I was in China, 白酒 meant a Chinese-made, clear-colored, hard alcohol!)
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Many Chinese people speaking English use "wine" when they mean 酒, perhaps because 红酒=red wine, so by extension 酒 seems like it should mean wine. They also refer to hard alcohol, incorrectly, as "white wine". (White wine, incidentally, is called 白葡萄酒, though it's not often encountered in China.) However, beer, whisky and baijiu, which are all 酒, are absolutely not "wine" in English. So in answer to your question, yes, perhaps, but it's not the best translation.
