"谁在你的妈妈的前面？"
Translation:Who's in front of your mother?
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I wrote "Who is in front of your mother?" Yet you say I am not correct. Your "translator" obviously do not know that "who's" is the same as "who is". And remember that "don't" is the same as "do not".
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Damo is correct, 的 can always be omitted for a family member, but also remember that a word modifying an adjective (like the 你 modifying 妈妈 here) is actually an adverb, and 的 only ever follows adjectives or adjectival phrases. So we should here omit the first 的, and instead make it ‘谁在你妈妈的前边？’. (ps talicueh, the ellipses in 汉语 uses normal dots: ...)
Not sure if you're joking, but 前面 means "in front of". I have no idea why it includes the same word though! I've been interested in the etymology of words in Chinese. It's very difficult to find info on it but I did find a website called hanzicraft.com. You can look up individual characters on there.
I actually wasn't joking, and it just occurred to me that homophones and homographs occur in Mandarin as they do in any language. Given the thousands of individual characters and tonal values I subconsciously assumed that wouldn't be the case.
I wrote "Who is in front of your mom?", but this is still incorrect. The system doesn't accept "mom" for "mother"...?
To denote "in front of your mother.." since you can't really say "in your mother's front.." in English.
Hope that makes sense.
