"你看见月亮上的动物吗？"

Translation: Do you see the animal on the moon?

[the.akaneko]

IT'S A RABBIT COOKING UP SOME MEDICINE AND/OR CANDY, Y'ALL. :D

[Patrick_Dark]

I think that this sentence could just as well be taken for "Did you see the animals on the moon?" (which is rejected) without any clarifications.

[cafe_disco]

I don't think there's been a history of Chinese people seeing multiple animals on the moon, though. There's just one "moon rabbit" (月兔) in Chinese folklore.

[RaphaelNing]

Native speaker here and I don't think this is a good sentence, because its use of 看见 is unnatural/ungrammatical. Instead of 你看见X吗, we usually say:

1. 你看见X了吗 = Do you see X / Have you seen X

2. 你能看见X吗 / 你看得见X吗 = Can you see X

[KX3.]

I agree. However, it is not wrong. A clearer sentence would use 看得见, for example.

[Ankichikun]

In this situation in English we would say "in" the moon, not "on".

[Dr_Jerry]

You mean as in, "Neil Armstrong walked in the moon"? I didn't think so.

This is one case where the preposition can be either "in" or "on," just depends upon what you're familiar with.

[jcreed]

Surely Armstrong was the first man on the moon, but the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon_(disambiguation) seems more relevant to the parallel myth about seeing the shape of a rabbit in the moon's surface.

I tend to think duo should probably accept both 'on' and 'in' here.

[Karoliina765050]

I also agree. I was expecting to be supposed to see the rabbit that is sitting on the moon and cooking meth, because that would be the animal on the moon.

[StephanusG1]

I tend to agree. 'In' was the proposition I automatically thought of, probably because of the man in the moon. Also, interestingly, I've noticed that 'in' was always used for the moon and planets until about the 20th century; e.g. HG Wells's The First Men in the Moon. I've often wondered what made English speakers start using 'on' instead.

[StephanusG1]

*preposition

[vvHills10]

YUe tu is white rabbit from mythology of the moon rabbit

[sushijack]

Other question from a beginner: Why is the word order this way around? I know "moon on the animal" doesn't make much sense but I still wonder why "moon" stands before "on" and before "animal"? Thanks.

[Alfie348421]

It seems there is some overlapping between the world when pronounced by the computer. It makes it hard to understand what Duo is muttering. am I the only one to have this problem