"工作忙不忙？"

Translation: Are you busy at work?

[luca.3v]

"is it busy at work" is a more literal translation

[Rando757719]

Considering there is no subject in this sentence, I think "are things busy at work" should be accepted. It's certainly a casual way in English to ask what this question is asking in Chinese...

[je_suis_T]

Can't i also say "is your job busy?"

[CinnamonTe1]

"Is it busy at work?" should be accepted.

If there is no actual "you" in the Chinese phrase, this is the most literal way to translate this question into English.

[Patrick825115]

Literal translations arent necessarily helpful. Most people would rather know what an idiom means than a word for word transliteration

[dz5JJdDa]

There need be no compromise in this instance. "Is work busy?" is both an accurate translation and a well worn idiomatic expression.

[Lawwrence]

I saw no 'you' so put 'is work busy or not?' but it was not accepted. Would this have been right?

[mhulme]

I agree with those stating that "Is work busy?" and "Is work busy or not?" are acceptable answers. In English we often say "Is work keeping you busy?" and the two former answers are accepted versions of this.

[the.tylor.]

I feel like 'are you busy at work'would be better like 你在工作忙不忙

[Kenneth92561]

Why is 你 not used here?

[Bill496592]

So 'you' is assumed?

[SelfStudyf]

There is no'' you'' in this sentence.

[JJNokia9No]

Is 工作 a synonym to 班?

[Eanorel2]

What does it mean exactly? Is your job so demanding that you are busy all the time or are you busy working? Or something else?

[Stephen241623]

I'm baffled. We have all these starkly ungrammatical “Hope you …” sentences, and yet here the telegraphic yet idiomatic “Busy at work?”, which is the actual parallel construction, is rejected.

[John218939]

Is work busy? Accepted Jan 11, 2022.

[HongLeimin]

工作忙不忙？ 工作 could be translated as working (verb) or work (noun). I translated it as at work.