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"我们要结婚了！"
Translation:We are getting married!
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Um, no. we want to get married would be 我们要结婚！
If you see a verb between 要 and 了, it definitely implies a future action instead of a will.
I think "We want to get married!" (rejected answer) should be accepted, but it's a bit misleading compared to "We are getting married!" (official answer) and "We will get married!" (rejected answer)
If two adults said "We want to get married!", I'd interpret it with the same meaning as "We will get married!" If two children said that though, one wouldn't assume that there's any intent to carry it out; in other words, there's a difference between "want" and "will" in that case.
Sadly, this answer still isn't accepted three months later; "要" expresses both a wish and intent to do get married and "will" is the most direct translation for that meaning.
A will is a definite planning of a happening in the future.
It does not encompass the meaning of a wish or desire
yao = need/want hui= can/will yao....(verb)......le = will
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We will get married = We are getting married. Of course they would have different nuances if you were a grammar police officer. But "We will get married" should be accepted as well.
This looks like, "We want to get married."
The translation seems to be using "hui" in place of "yao."
"We are going to be married" is just another minor colloquial way to express it in US English
Chinese is not a precise language. I'll just be happy if I ever get to use the phrase!!
Part of the problem here arises from the fact that the we form of the future 'shall' is scarcely used now so that the difference between intent 'will' and ' future ' shall..' for the first oerson singular and plural , that's I and we have been lost.
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maybe dumb, but why is this not we are married? it has the 了 and there is no "going to or will be" in the sentence.
