"你昨天有什么事情?"
Translation:What happened to you yesterday?
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"What was the matter with you yesterday?" sounds like questioning the misbehaviour of the listener yesterday. This translation is awful. "What matters did you have yesterday?" is miles better. "Did something happen to you yesterday?", another meaning, is also possible.
For questioning misbehavior, we can say
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昨天你幹嘛了(你)?
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昨天你怎麼了(你)?
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Thanks, Keith. Since this could be interpreted as 'What matters did you have yesterday,' am I right in thinking this is rather like 'what were you doing yesterday, or 'what kept you busy yesterday'?
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I'm a native English speaker and to me it doesn't sound at all like questioning the misbehaviour of the listener.
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Sorry but the explanation of 事情 and 東西 are not accurate.
"Business" in the sense of matters is usually just 事. "This is none of your business." would be "這不關你的事。" We don't say 事情 here.
東西 can also be intangible. e.g. 你在想甚麼東西? / Which things are you thinking about? (although 東西 can be skipped here.)
Same here, the suggested 'correct' answer was 'What did you have to do yesterday?', but then I look here in the discussion for some explanation and I find the expected phrase 'What was the matter with you yesterday?' which has a completely different meaning in English. This is just bewildering and hopelessly inadequate for teaching.
Yes. While not accusatory as some have commented the English phrases you used above all have a connotation of something wrong. I.e. "what negative situation caused the changes I observed in your usual pattern of behaviour yesterday ?" I don't find the Chinese sentence has such a negative connotation. It's more like "what did you do yesterday ?" which is a neutral question.
Got given this: "What did you've to do yesterday" as a correction to my version of "What did you do yesterday". Now, I get that my answer can be improved on, and I'm very grateful for this course and really cheer for the awesome dudes who made it (thank you!) but "What did you've to do yesterday" is a fail.
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I put "What did you do yesterday?" I don't know if that is a correct translation, but Duo's correction was "What did you've to do yesterday?" It is not correct English.
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Seriously - it's saying that this is the correct response: "What did you've to do yesterday?". This is nonsense and not correct English.
When I was in China I memorized "what happened = 发生了什么 Fāshēngle shénme" but ........ Strangely, I did find people using 你有什么事情?a lot in China instead of the above and it communicated the same thing so it may not be a literal translation but functionally it does the same "Yesterday you had what thing" The 'thing' is acting like wenti ( ie /issue/problem" ) or negative shijian (ie 'event')
I think it can mean that, depending on the situation; it can also mean other things, like "what was up with you yesterday" or "what happened to you yesterday (why did you stand me up)" or "what appointment did you have yesterday" or just "what were you doing yesterday" - we don't have an exact equivalent of this sentence in English; we say different things depending on the context.
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I typed "What things happened to you yesterday" but it was marked as wrong. I reported it. Should this be accepted? I think it makes sense in English.
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When I saw above "what did you've to do yesterday?" I was going to say that's bad English but now I see you're saying that that's duolingo's version. Really? Oh dear. 11 Jan 2022
Shouldn't it be, What were you busy with yesterday? Or, What were you doing yesterday? or, What did you have going on yesterday? "What was the matter with you" means something like, "Why did you [behave badly unexpectedly] yesterday?" (example, why did you play football unusually badly yesterday when you are usually a good player, or, why did you make my mom mad yesterday when you are usually polite to her, or, why didn't you come to the party when you promised you would come, etc.)