"I want hot water, and you?"

Translation: 我要热水，你呢？

[spellitout77]

When you submit 我要热冰，你呢 and not 我要热水，你呢. Brutal.

[dtUyaD]

The side radical on bing is ice. Hot ice would be ... pretty cool, so to speak

[cactuscoffeerose]

Wow took me a while to realize this. Don't speed-read characters, i guess!

[Theofilos420]

My heart goes out to all of you crap-i-used-那- instead-of-哪 people out there. Rip

[MauroEzequ6]

Same here!!!! So angry!!!!

[BTSARMYUNITE]

I hate when characters look the same and you easily get them mixed up.

[jorrad93]

English has a way more confusing linguistic system.

[MattyWakes]

Living in China three years, and I've still never heard it called 热水. Only 开水.

[DeiXu]

I also hear 开水 more frequently than 热水, though I do hear plenty of both. I guess it's a "soda" versus "pop" thing; just depends on what people in your area grew up with.

[VietDucLe]

Pinyin please

[wiki.on.kiwi]

热水 is hot water
开水 is boiled water
Both acceptable

[middriff]

Lived around Beijing for two years, never once heard 开水. Interesting.

[AndersZhou1]

Should also take — 我想要热水，你呢？

[EquanimousLingo]

Hot ice is not a thing; nothing brutal about it.

[velocitay]

Duolingo does not accept 我要热水，你呢？, which is the translation that it claims is the correct solution - something seems seriously wrong with their "correct answer matching" feature.

[Will61947]

I take Chinese at my university, my teacher (who is from China) taught us the basic word for "want" was "想". I'm aware that "要" is also a word for "want", except we used "要" as a way to say "must", like "I MUST do homework" or "He MUST study for tomorrow's test". The fact that they don't allow "想" as an acceptable answer is throwing me off a little.

[chetlin]

You need to use 想要 at least. 他们想热水 means "they miss hot water", as in it's not available anymore and they are sad.

[alexbuenomoya]

Mamahuhu seal of approval

[kaerlighed2]

First time had problems, cause i didnt wrote "?" at the end ( It worked everytime without..). - Don't know where it is on the chinese Keyboard.

[Richard30914]

I've been doing this course for 4 weeks and never used "?" But it always accepts my answers. I don't think it matters to duo (Oct'21)

[Richard30914]

Remove the comma (as in the Chinese - Eng question earlier) & it gets a bit romantic

[thchaffman]

What's the literal difference between 我-要-热-冰，你-呢? and 我要-热-冰，你-呢?

[Theofilos420]

One has an extra hyphen between the characters for the literal difference. Other than that they both seem to be saying "I want hot ice, and you?"

[Bilbao77]

我想热水，你呢？not accepted. Preposterous

[captlu1]

You can say 我要热水 or 我想要热水. In this case, you can't say 我想热水 as it means "I miss hot water".

想 + verb means would like to/want to (E.g. 我想去上海 I want to go to Shanghai)

想 + noun/pronoun means miss (E.g. 我想你 I miss you)

[Nevin711542]

The 呢 is in neutral tone but I hear it expressed in a variety of tones - sometimes 2nd and sometimes 4th. Is it just my ears playing tricks or is this common?

[manubregen]

我要熱水， 你呢？ is incorrect?

[Pen_Virak]

I write "我要热水，你要什么？" Marked as incorrect. Not sure if i am wrong

[Emena813223]

My answer should be accepted

[Theofilos420]

Should "我需要热水，你呢？" be accepted? I haven't fully grasped if there is a difference between the usage of 需 and 想 yet.

[JaniTranslates]

Submitted by mistake! Wanted to remove sth. Still getting used to the new interface

[Silverial]

Rejected 我要熱水，你呢？I assume because my keyboard uses trad characters.

[YanXiaoNan]

Why is this answer wrong???