"我的姐姐二十四岁。"
Translation:My older sister is twenty four years old.
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That is a good question! I am not certain, but I believe that 岁 indicates the verb along with the age. In my other learning programs, I have never heard 他 是 二十 岁。 That, of course, does not mean it is correct! So, we could use a native speaker or someone further along to answer this... :)
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Yes. "岁" works out to more or less "has reached the age of," which isn't really a natural way to phrase it in English, but it gets the general idea across.
Thank you for asking.
I'm happy to find pre-asked and pre-answered questions of my specific ambiguous point
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Is it just me or the speaking test is not working very well? Every time I say any numbers such as 二十四岁, it couldn't detect the 二十四. However, when I say those numbers using google speech recogniton, it works fine. I think the speaking test is buggy.
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It seems it wants to receive a chinese number answer, but recognition softwares generate indo-arabic numbers instead. Kinda if it wanted to receive "twenty four years" as input but instead receives "24 years" therefore marking as incorrect. This is especially annoying in lessons about dates.
I'm having the same problem, not sure if it's my fault or the voice recognition is buggy...
I wrote "my older sister is 24 years of age", instead of "my older sister is 24 years old". It means exactly the same thing in English. Needless to say I got marked wrong, not for the Chinese being wrong, but by the limited choice of English responses.
I'm a mother tongue English speaker.
Why can't I use 24 as well az twenty-four or twenty four? They all mean the same thing.
the answer is "My older sister is twenty four years old." BUT, I only got the option "older" instead "old"
How do you know you're suppose to multiply the two and ten characters to get 20, before adding 4? I always thought you added numbers. Why is the answer not "my older sister is 16 years old?"
I wrote: "our older sister is 24 years old" and it was considered wrong. How come ? I guess you should accept the numbers
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I said Me sister is 24 years old they should hve just said that there was a typo and said that i was right humph
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But your answer doesn't identify her as your older sister as opposed to your younger sister.
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No, the verb "has" is incorrect. You wouldn't ask "How old have she?" You'd ask "How old is she?" "She is twenty-four years old."
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You responsible people, are you kidding with the people? Aren't you aware that there is no 'OLD' in the options, so I had to choose 'OLDER'. I know it's wrong, but there was no other option. !!!!!!!
My "wrong" answer: My older sister is 24 years old. Your correct answer: My older sister is twenty four years old. Any difference? Numerals vs words. Please fix this.
Click the little flag symbol and select "My answer should have been accepted". Now you have appropriately reported this!!
I would say not to waste time reporting errors in Duolingo, as it is clear from other discussions that Duolingo currently ignores such reports. Just get through the lessons and try to ignore any problems like this. It's fun when you just ignore all the problems.
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Twenty-four should have a hyphen, as do all similar numbers in English from 21 thru 99.