"My older sister does not want to stay at home."

Translation: 我的姐姐不要留在家里。

[George507090]

For close personal relations you don't need 的，so 我姐姐不要留在家里 should also be correct.

[Pcookie334]

Its much more coloquial to drop the 的

[xialuote1]

Absolutely!

[Sutanuka4]

Not only 的 is not required for personal relations, 不要 is not the correct translation for 'does not want'. 不想 would've been more accurate.

[IceAly]

Is 我姐姐不想留在家 okay？

[Sutanuka4]

Yes! Absolutely.

[o-chefe]

Why is the place adverb after the verb? Shouldn't it be 我姐姐不想在家里留?

[Gabrielle145359]

I was surprised, too, as I didn't know 留 fell into this catagory, but there are a few verbs that act this way (住 and 坐 being the other ones I know of). Someone in another forum said that the place comes after certain verbs that are not really action verbs. It's more that the verb describes the manner of being in that place, almost like the place is the object of the verb. Try to think about the difference between

"I write at home." 我在家写。

and "I stay at home." 我留在家。

Being at home is not part of writing (it's more of a separate piece of information), but being at home seems to be part of "staying" at home. I hope that helps.

[BobBowles1]

In other topics 不要 is used to convey the idea of 'must not', which does not seem to me to reflect the meaning of the English here.

[Jean-Miche357968]

what about this sentence ？
我的姐姐不要留家。

[ChaosScroll]

Wo ya liuzai jiali

[xLO0wCqr]

what's the difference between 'yao' and 'xiang' and any other version of "want", etc?