"They are my older brother and older sister."
Translation:他们是我的哥哥和姐姐。
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Yes. We use 她們 only in the case all of them are female.
BTW There is a less learned character 妳, being the female version of 你. We can see it often in Traditional Chinese ladies' media. 妳 and 妳們 are also used in the same way.
Chinese feminists to the front. Start writing 她们 as soon as there is one female among them. Gender reversal.
i seem to have the identical phrasing but it was not accepted 他们 是我的哥哥和姐姐
It is conventional in Chinese to omit the possessive particle when talking about close relatives.
I think the point of Duolingo is to gain a more literal understanding of a language. Its hard to convey/teach subtle colloquiallisms like that.
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One of the Chinese sentences is this lesson is formed without the possessive. It doesn't make sense to not accept it as an answer.
I put ”他们我哥哥和姐姐" instead of "他们我的哥哥和姐姐" because when I took Mandarin in HS 我的老师 taught us that it's okay if we don't add "的" at the end if we're talking about people we're close to. I've put sentences in here before where I didn't need to add “的” and it still counted. It should still count.
Duolingo accepts the sentence without 的. But you forgot the 是. 他们是我哥哥和姐姐。
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Am I mistaken or does older brother sound like it's pronounced wrong? Isn't it suppose to be a double of the same word like the others?
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I only ask because so much emphasis is put on pronunciation in the whole language in order to make sense.
the way the person speaks 哥哥 seems different where it is not pronounced ge ge but more like "ge guh". how is 哥哥 typically pronounced?
