"What juice do you want?"
Translation:你想要什么果汁？
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Seems to me 你想喝什么汁 should be accepted. The 要 isn't necessary and the prompt didn't specify fruit juice -- though, admittedly, one would assume it.
I agree that 要 doesn’t seem to be necessary here.
你想什么果汁？is what I tried (marked wrong).
But, on reflection, it does sound nicer with the double syllable. So I’ll try to learn it that way.
I used 你想要什么汁？and was marked incorrect. Isn't 汁 by itself indicative of 'juice'? The question didn't specify 'fruit juice'.
By itself 汁 means "juice" in the sence of "fluid" or "sauce". When meaning a fruit juice it's either 果汁 or the specific juice 苹果汁, 橙汁 etc. (I don't think I've ever heard 汁 alone in this context) But in English it's normally shortened to simply "juice". Admittedly it takes some "reading between the lines" but that's language learning.
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Just to explain, the 什么 is "what" and the 果汁 is "fruit juice". So if you put the "what" at the end the syntax is wrong.
