"爸爸妈妈,晚安!"
Translation:Father and Mother, good night!
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I agree, it should also be mom and dad, as how many of us say mother and father in full.
1142
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.
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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
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Both dictionaries and native speakers used both good night and good evening as a translation and use of wan3an1
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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.
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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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As I said to a previous similar question: it would be rather odd in English to say "good night parents". We use "parents" to refer to them, but not to address them. A similar example might be the fact that we say "Ladies and Gentlemen" to address an audience. We don't say something like "Good evening, audience". We would say "the audience applauded". Does that make sense?
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All of these are correct. NW American native speaker. I used about half of these,mostly mom and dad, but also ma and pa, mama , poppa, and yes, Parents, as an address. I don't think I've used mum, pops, but I'm pretty sure I've used or heard most forms, with or without an "and" in the middle, and in either gender order (but definitely female first preference).
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Because it's not what we usually say. It's unnatural. Isn't there a natural, common order in your language? Does it sound strange if you use the wrong order in your language?
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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???