"我有小鼻子。"
Translation:I have a small nose.
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Numbers aren't required. While the sentence could theoretically also be "I have small noses", it'll be understood that you are just talking about your one, singular nose.
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I'd like to know when 的 can be omitted and when it is necessary too. In another thread, someone said that 的 is not used when the adjective is a single character.
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The Chinese phrase sounds weird to me. It sounds like it's a word for word translation of the English sentence! I would have said: Wo de bizi hen xiao! Any native Chinese speakers who can comment?
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It is grammatically correct, but I think nobody says it except kids.
There is a song sung at kindergarten:
我有小手拍拍拍，我有小腳踏踏踏，
我有小眼看看看，我有小嘴哈哈哈。
Native speaker here. This is weird indeed. 我（的）鼻子很小 would be much more natural, and actually if I'm going to say this, I'd say 我（的）鼻子不大.
From what I have learned, your example is not wrong; however, you said "my nose is small", while this exercise example means "I have a small nose". Yes, they essentially mean the same thing, but you should be able to tell the difference between those two translations.
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Why would you permit "small" and reject "little"? In polite English the first word has a slightly negative sound, while the second has a cute sound, where one might say it in polite speech. Because of subtleties like this you need to permit more "correct" answers.
I wrote little but got it wrong because it's supposed to be small... same thing, right?
And don't dare to write "I have a little nose", otherwise you'll get marked wrong.