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"爸爸妈妈，晚安！"
Translation:Father and Mother, good night!
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how could 奶奶 means grandma cause 奶 alone means milk so how could "milkmilk" means grandma
I asked my mom who is a Chinese teacher and she says a probability is that 奶 has the 女 in front of it which means it is a feminine word just as 妈 has the 女 in front of it and only females can produce milk so
True, but we could easily say "Mom, dad..." without adding 'and' in between. But in the end it is about learning the speaking practices common in the Chinese language not making it match our own speaking practices.
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I agree, it should also be mom and dad, as how many of us say mother and father in full.
It wants father first, from the literal translation, but in English it's common to say mother first (I don't know why, but I noticed I was going it automatically as well!)
In English ladies first is correct, because that is what is polite in English culture.
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It should be. This is the most natural English answer. Mom is used before Dad for order. Also we usually shorten the the titles to Mom and Dad.
Parents, godd night! /is the same/ and Duolingo translates in that way, but don't accept that :/
Is "good night" always expressed like this, or are there any formats using hao?
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Interesting question ! Let's start from scratch :-
Good morning = 早安 / 早上好
Good afternoon = 午安 / 下午好
Good evening = 傍晚 / 傍晚好 / 晚上好
Good night = 晚安 / xxxx = we don't use 晚上好 as Good night , sound so weird , c'mon ! Off to bed , sleep tight !
晚上好 = can be used in Good evening , which about 8-10pm
'mum' only? When the rest of this app used American English spelling? Talk about mixed signals.
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Both dictionaries and native speakers used both good night and good evening as a translation and use of wan3an1
British English uses mum, way more than mom. If mom doesn't work too I can't help you.
Are you a native speaker? Is that what you would say? If so, I'm curious what flavour of English you speak, as it isn't natural to me.
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I thought 爸爸妈妈 meant "parents" but the app doesn't accept, "good night parents" as correct. Have I misunderstood?
It can be translated as parents, but it would be rather odd in English to say "good night parents". We use "parents" to refer to them, but not to address them.
It is formal, not wrong but wrong in the context that there is no 我的 (wǒ de) which means mine or my
Nice...Earlier I gave the Chinese equivalent of the English: Father and Mother, good night, and was marked wrong because of the "he" (and). And other times if you leave the and out they count it wrong.
I was just trying different versions as in papa and mama, daddy and mommy, but saw that they were marked wrong. Does Chinese culture expect more distance/respect from children towards their parents?
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Yes I agree. in most cases Duo will dink you if not translated exact word for word, so why add words where there is none or not needed???
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Grammatically the English is Dad, mum... which is what you would actually say. You would not use "and" in speech.
