"请问，洗手间在这里吗？"
Translation:Excuse me, is the bathroom here?
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"Is there a bathroom here?" in Chinese is "有洗手间这里吗?" or using the alternative way of asking "有没有洗手间这里?"
"Is there a bathroom here" implies you don't know if there is one. "Is the bathroom here" implies you know there is a bathroom somewhere around but you want to verify its location.
"这里" should come first in your examples: "这里有洗手间吗" and "这里有没有洗手间".
Because in that case, you're asking if they HAVE a bathroom, or if the place has one, so you would use 有(to have).
From what I've read in this forum and other webs, it seems like a regional/dialect difference, but mean the same.
In the north they use er and in the south up to Shanghai or so they use li
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Although I don't rest in restrooms, I don't bathe in them either. In France one gets to the point and asks where the f ing toilet is located.
And yet things get washed from one's system in them, and hopefully one washes at least one's hands in them. In a pinch one can go further with the washing, e.g. in an an airport with a long layover.
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"Restroom" is a more polite way of saying it. Bathroom is kind of odd because we dont take a bath in the toilet
I think, "Is this the bathroom?" sounds way more natural in English. Thoughts? Is this an accurate translation?
It's not exactly accurate if we want something as close to word-for-word as possible, but arguably it's at least as likely as Duo's translation to be used in the same situation.
Are these 2 sentence mean the same: 洗手间在这里吗? = 洗手间在这吗? And why we need to use 里 here?
I'd say "对， 在这里" or "（不，）不在这里", or, in lieu of the latter, I'd say where it is.
You're right. I had excuse me in my answer. What I was asking about was whether it would be okay to add "in" before here.
For the same reason your question is wrong. In English, we invert the subject and the verb (the main verb or the helping verb, depending) when asking a question.
Your sentence should be "Why is 'Excuse me, the bathroom is here?' not accepted?", or "Why isn't 'Excuse me, the bathroom is here?' accepted?"
So ....we can use 里 instead of 儿 , depends on the accent we adopt, right?
Or any different between these two? More formal?
It wouldn't be literal. I believe you could say "洗手间在这个方向吗？"
(It would be helpful if a native Chinese speaker could confirm this. I would say it, and I know I'd be understood, but I'm not sure if it's entirely natural-sounding, or if there's a better way to ask the question.)
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Fix this response. marked as incorrect even with the correct answer, with or without a comma for heaven's sake
Did you put a space after the comma or after "请问"? Duo doesn't allow spaces in Chinese.
The emphasis of "right" isn't really present in the Chinese, but the meaning is effectively the same.
It doesn't sound like anything I would say in English it'seems like a nonsense sentence. Either the person saying it is blind or walking up to random doors and asking if he's guessed the right one... why not just ask where the bathroom is???
It's the equivalent of saying "Am I in the right place" versus "Which way should I go".
