"Who's next to you?"

Translation: 谁在你的旁边？

[baodgle]

Says, does "Ni de pang bian shi/zai shei?" work? Thank you!

[wegou]

shi√
zai×

[josueetcom]

Might be the same in meaning but the English question has the subject "who" so I'd expect 谁 to be the subject in the Chinese as well

[stephen_zissou]

What's wrong with 你的旁边是谁？

[Rumactree]

I hope someone answers you. I’d like to know more about this word order too.

I imagine that 在你的旁边是谁？would be better.

[Barry527413]

My biggest difficulty with this language is word order. Sometimes I have all of the needed characters but they are in the wrong order.

[wegou]

it's totally right

[cazort]

Still no audio playback on the English to Chinese translation exercise talk pages? This makes me sad and I don't understand why it's still not fixed. Please someone fix this.

[MarioSchro]

Fixed for me!

[pjtpjt]

It would have helped a lot if the word order for 谁 was explained before the lesson.

[deactivated user]

I think the word order is exactly the same for "shei" as for when you would give a statement. So "the person besides you is Bob" becomes "the person besides you is who?"

[Lakeida2]

I agree. They should introduce a new word with definition before putting it in a sentence for us to decipher.

[i_like_soccer]

it explains in the tip....

[grace306781]

The question word(s) normally are at the end of the sentence. Why is it different now? Can someone please explain?

[Derricklee1017]

誰就在你旁邊

[RodrigoG.C]

This comment gives us beginners absolutely nothing

[Maka.977]

Does 在你旁边谁 work?

[Rumactree]

I don’t think so. Sounds odd to me.

[GeorgiaPap.]

I wrote 你在谁的旁边。Is it wrong??

[Aviva328416]

yes, yes it is. it should be 谁在你旁边

[DatQuangLe]

This sounds scary if u know the context in which there is visibly nobody beside

[Cani-molli]

Shei non shuei

[Manuel_Lujan]

I think both are right

[Liam690901]

Both are correct

[EvanGreenw3]

I havent been studying chinese for too long, but for me I think a good formula to use when describing something like this is to say subj 1 + 在 + subj 2 + 的 + location. Hope this helps.

[SwordFishe1]

Is the 的 often omitted? 谁在你旁边？

[Leonard543]

Is it still correct with an extra 里? 设在你的旁边里?

[JamalWaliK]

In the answer, "shei" is wrongly written as "shui".

[i_like_soccer]

the answer is '我的哥哥'

[WIMDispa]

Why not given the character for ?