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"你们有几个儿子？"
Translation:How many sons do you have?
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How many sons so you have? Should be accepted, it's OK to be used in the exercise to show plural, but in the answer shouldn't be needed.
I believe you are saying "you" should be accepted as plural for "你们". If so, "you" is an accepted answer by Duolingo.
In English you wouldn't say how many sons do you both have? We would just say how many sons do you have? - you becomes plural because you would be addressing both as implied here
I can't see the problem, you said that "you" should be used the mean you(both/all), But this is the case.
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I think because it specifically asking for sons not children (nor daughters) in this question.
The sentence isn't necessarily addressed to two people so "both" is misleading.
also you've given me the correction "You guys have how many sons?" which isn't grammatically correct in English.
"Do you have any sons?" may be a possibility to be considered - - if you know he has sons then my answer would be wrong but if you do not know if he has any then it would be correct!?
You're right.
"How many sons have you?" is incorrect.
"Have you..." is not the correct way to ask possession related questions. The correct way is "Do you have...".
"Have you.." is used to ask yes/no questions like "Have you done your homework?", "Have you ever visited Disneyland?", "Have you decided what will you do tomorrow?" Etc.
No I don't agree. Please do not use that version elsewhere.
"Have you" is best suited in question sentences. "Have you seen the English grammar book?"
If you have, then open it and study it please.
Cross I lost a heart on this! ENGLISH IS MY FIRST LANGUAGE! I SHOULD KNOW THE GRAMMAR?
Not every citizen of Britain scores a band 9 in the IELTS exam.
Similarly many Chinese students fail in the Mandarin language tests.
:-)
I find the english translation including the word "guys" to be awkward since it "guys' generally refers to males, so to me it's kinda like asking two men how now many sons do you have. I think most people are forgetting that the word "you" is also the proper word for "you" and for 你们. My two cents worth.
It's common in American English to use "guys" when addressing a mixed-sex group.
Even though it's unnatural to say "you guys" all the time, people actually do it occasionally and it helps underscore that 你们 is plural.
I have a lot of trouble making those symbols correspond to the sounds of the speech. For instance, the "gè" seems absent.
The recording for this sentence says 个 strangely fast, but it is there. Listen to the end of the 几 sound.
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I'm disappointed that it's not allowed to leave out "both" in the translation because there is no actual reference to 'both' such as 'dou'.
i cannot do this because the sound is on the words and will sound but not take words
So, I’ve searched that《几》and《多少》are both used to indicate questions regarding quantity. In this case, is it possible to use《多少》instead of《几》, like《他们有多少儿子？》because I think this question (the latter) is just as acceptable, just that this lesson talks about indicating quantity using《几》. But, of course, I’m still only a starter in Chinese, so I want to be sure.
Why doesn't he pronounce 子 with the 3rd tone? It's at the end of the sentence so it should be emphasized, correct?
Why don't you just go with the suggested word sons in the sentence instead of male children?
Just asking.
How many children do you have? should be accept too.The question didn't mentioned that only sons is mentioned,It could also mentioned brothers,sisters or daughters.
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Can the question be translated to "do you have sons?", or does it imply that the speaker know for sure that they at least one son?
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I remain unconvinced that "How many sons have you?" is wrong. I have used "have you?" in this way for 70 years without ever being corrected or misunderstood.
How many cars have wheels?
How many sons have you?
Stare and compare. Does the first sentence suggest to you that wheels have cars?
If not, why not? Contemplate. That is the same reason the second sentence sounds odd to the vast majority.
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I have contemplated! In the sentence "How many sons have you?" the word "you" remains the subject of the sentence. It would be equally correct to say " How many sons have I?" where "I" is the subject. It would be meaningless to say "How many sons have me?" where "me" is the object form of "I". If you read it as though "sons" were the subject and "you" were the object, of course it is meaningless. "How many sons have you?", "How many sons do you have?" and "How many sons have you got?" are all correct British English depending on the context. What I want to understand is whether there are equivalent subtleties in Chinese.
Should one have any aversion to asking mainland Chinese about the number of children they have?
do you guys have any sons should be accepted as you ask for people to write "guys" in your previous rounds, seems like each section there are new rules for what the translations should be in English :)
Your problem is that you're asking "do you have sons" while the sentence is asking "HOW MANY sons do you have"
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No; in English "how many" is used for countable things that can be identified with a number only (I have one son, I have two sons) and "how much" is used for uncountable things that require a measure word ("How much rice do you have?" "I have a cup of rice." / "How much medicine did you take?" "I took a teaspoonful of medicine.")
