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"Is it expensive to take a taxi there?"
Translation:坐出租车去那里贵不贵？
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I think the 'there' in the English is misleading, especially since it is not required in the reverse translation of this phrase.
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From my understanding it's redundant. You either use one or the other, but not both in the same sentence.
Very frustrating. Half the exercises expect us to translate "there" as "去" and mark it wrong if we use "去那儿". The other half expect us to translate "there" as "去那儿" and mark it wrong if we just use "去".
If you say the sentence that way, the meaning of the sentence will change.
When you say "那里坐出租车贵吗" it would mean "Would it be be expensive to take taxi at (implied location)" instead of what the question says.
Since the meaning changes, your sentence is incorrect.
@TianaKitsu, Actually, the English sentence given here is ambiguous; "there" might just as well be interpreted as "at [location", as it can "to [location]". Hence, both translation should, reasonably, be allowed.
I think this sentence should be :'Is it expensive to take a taxi to go there'.
A lot of questions do not accept the correct answer! There are also "missing" correct answers in the dictionary. PLEASE CORRECT.
Why is 贵不贵 only accepted at the end of the sentence instead of at the very beginning?
You'd probably be understood but in my experience, "question structures" usually go after whatever you're asking about.
this is wrong because there is no 'there'. although you put the word ‘去’ which means 'there', the way you phrased this does not mean 'there'.
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出 (chū) = to go out/to come out/to occur
租 (zū) = to hire/to rent
车 (chē) = car/vehicle
出租车 (chūzūchē) = a come out hire vehicle = taxi
I wrote 那里坐出租车贵不贵 and they said that i was wrong. I am a native speaker and in chinese this is very much accepted.
Do you know why 去 os required here? Isn't 坐 enough to say that you are using the taxi?
