"My last name is Wang, and yours?"
Translation:我姓王，你呢？
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And how should I have known this exactly? Especially for the word 'yours'. In the following menu, it suggested something else.
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There isn't the word Yours in the Chinese sentence.
Literal translation is “I have the family name Wang, how about you?"
Why is it 你呢 (You how about)? Instead of 呢你 (How about you?). That's where I got it wrong. I thought Mandarin has the same SVO has English? Thanks!
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呢 (ne) is a particle that turns a statement into a question. Think of it as being like a question mark. It's used to create an open-ended question, whereas placing 吗 (ma) at the end of a sentence makes a yes-no question.
呢 is not a interrogative. it's postposition particle. it has many meaning. in this sentence, something like "and you?" or "how about you?" 'A is blabla, B呢?' is 'A is blabla. so how(what) about B?'
Every language has different grammar or most of languages are different in grammar
Tap the English words to see the answers. Study the word so the next time you don't need to check it.
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Everyone skips the tips section on each course in Chinese and other languages. it saves you time!
For me English is harder than chinese because I only study chinese a month ago and understand some chinese now
And I've been studying English my whole life since kinder but still got it wrong
You can see my mistakes in my grammar I know there is something wrong I can feel it. please correct me if there are wrong
I would like it if they explained what the chinese symbols were 1st instead of letting us guess & hope for the best. I will say though that duolingo is encouraging me to do more research.
When you click on a lesson, you will see a emerging window with a key and a bulb. Click on the bulb and you will find the previous explanation for the lesson. That's it, no more guessing! Happy learning! :)
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I just has the same issue. My guess is that the comma is a different symbol: "," in English and "，" in Chinese layout. They may not have considered this.
There is just, no prior ecplenation as to why some of these sentences are formef the way they are or what some of the words even mean
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From phone app there is now a Tips option besides Skip and Play. It basicly gives the grammar infos for each module.
What's happening with the punctuation? I have: 我姓王,你呢? but it's wrong. They said 我姓王，你呢？ and that's right. What kind of punctuation charset is that? Help please!
The Microsoft Window 10 Simplified Chinese Pinyin Keyboard in language settings seems to automatically put in the spaces after commas if that helps.
Depends on your input method. At least with the Windows 7 Simplified PRC Chinese keyboard option based on an English keyboard, there is an option second-to-last from the right that allows you to change your punctuation type from Chinese to Western by either clicking it or pressing Ctrl and the ./> key. If it displays a western period (.), it'll use the western charset; it should typically display a Chinese period though （。）.
how are you confused? It's pretty straightforward, "你呢" just means and you?
That means: "My name is Last Name Wang, how about you?" or "My name last name is Wang, how about you?" That does not make sense and has a different meaning from "My last name is Wang, how about you?"
叫 means called/named, whereas 姓 means surname.
So that would have been denied because yes, that is incorrect.
My last name wang,and you ? Thats the translation to english .as u can see there is no verb and no changing of pronouns.so simple so easy. never change anything .
Is it exactly wrong to put a space in between the comma and 你？ I'd imagine that spaces are used for closing sentences in this type of alphabet but just checking.
definitely not wrong. if duolingo doesn't accept that that's a problem with duolingo :)
❤❤❤ i wrote the exact right answer that they told me that would be the right one, but they told me its wrong. they be like: No, it's not 我姓王，你呢? its 我姓王，你呢?
I don't understand my answer is exactly the same as the correct answer and id marked wrong! 我姓王, 你呢?
I wrote: 我姓王， 你呢？ And it was not accepted. I am a bit confused. Is it because I manually typed in the answer instead of using the suggestions?
same exact thing happened to me. I use the chinese keyboard on my computer instead of the provided word blocks. Not sure how it's wrong when it's exactly what they're saying is correct.
The first part would be correct.
However, you can't use 姓 and 叫 right next to each other in a sentence without it making absolutely no sense. 姓 means "surname", and 叫 means "called", so basically your first name.
If you say 姓叫, it really makes no sense. I'm not the best explainer so it's a bit hard to explain but yeah.
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Curious how Duo gives the English equivalent of "xing" as "last name" when it comes first in Chinese. "Surname" or "family name" would be better.
I got this one wrong, and the correct answer that displayed was exactly how I typed it in. Very bad.
Why was my answer incorrect when I typed: "我姓王 , 你呢?" ? That should've been the correct answer. Besides, it is better to get familiar with characters ASAP instead of sticking to pinyin
I wish you could hover over a word without dropping it into the sentence to hear it
Couldn't 和你 work here too or is there some type of grammar rule that changes the way that would fit into the sentence?
I wrote it right, and it said I wrote it wrong. In the correction, was the same.
I already reported this, but: I replied with the exact same answer and it said wrong.
they allow 「你呢」 to be used and even make it mandatory in the word bank in some parts but in others, they mark it wrong. so many inconsistencies in this course.
There was no option for ni, so I lost a life. This might be a glitch but you need to fix it.
Is 你呢 ok to use formally? Or does it sound very casual or something like that?
This is a bit confusing. The last name is used for Chinese Peoples, if you a Asian like me watching Chinese TV Series then you could probably say, there a a LOT of dynasty, legends. Wang Dynasty,Huang Dynasty,Luo Dynasty,Ma Dynasty etc... Also, it was family name! Like my friend name is Sun Sheng Wei (孙). Then the sun will be his last name. Ricky Soon (sun) Sheng wei. Do you even understand this?
There isn't the word Yours in the Chinese sentence.
Literal translation is “I have the family name Wang, how about you?"
"yours" is not a word we commonly use. That is just how the Chinese language is structured; "yours" is not a word. Instead, it is two words or more.
How many more times does Duo have to be reminded: Surname (姓) is the first name in Chinese (eg. 李小龙) NOT the last name (eg. Bruce Li). I thought that it was Chinese that we were learning, not US English?
I gave the same answer as the correct answer shown, and it told me i was wrong
