"Ask it again."

Translation: 你再问一次。

[Leillia]

So the 你 is necessary? I put 再问一次 (for "Ask it again") and that was wrong.

[NasuSamaruk0]

你 is used to specify the target. However, you can exclude 你 to make the alternate sentence, which is also correct.

[Mk_.]

Then why is it wrong when i dont put the sign in, it should be correct and put the sentence with the 你 as an alternate answer.

[DariusLee3]

It is okay to omit 你 in conversational Chinese as well

[Miriam442403]

Duolingo fixed that by now

[CYHae24O]

nope

[Tim450080]

still nope

[NathanRasm]

Works for me now.

[ShamsHasanDL]

2020-05-28: "再问一次" response accepted.

[ONLYAARON]

2020-06-18 Not accepted for me

[GaryLBulthouse]

is accepted 2020/07/28 and then:
is NOT accepted 2020/08/02

[madebagus94]

Still nope

[Jane351981]

I agree. Unclear in the question that it is addressed to you

[Vinny636914]

I put that too and it said it was correct

[daisy.jesse7]

Now it is correct (August 2018)

[max.a.wang]

Now it is not again.

[Lims41]

to Leillia and commentators: I omitted 你 and it still was incorrect
(Oct 2018)

[Fionnuala968998]

March 2019 and still incorrect

[6Qtk5]

It is now August 2019, but 问再一次 still isn't accepted

[dafadllyn]

It seems that 再 needs to be before the verb (here 问). 再问一次 is accepted.

[DemitaKaye]

Natives say 问再一次/ verb + 再一次 all the time. It should be accepted.

[TGisBB]

Ty

[WangShu412]

再问一次 is accepted December 21st, 2019

[Clara604861]

再问一次 is accepted (April 2020), 问再一次 is not.

[Ph3naz]

I put 问一次 which I thought I had put before and got it correct, which makes sense because "问一次" seems like it would be a proper
command for someone.

[Semeltin]

Well, literally that means "ask one time" I don't know if that implies again but I doubt it.

[annadevoogel]

Would only 再问 be enough?

[72ndChronicle]

The literal translation of that would be "ask again" while we're looking for something more to the effect of "ask once again"

[tccango]

It was marked incorrect.

[KadiahGuye]

So nees to put 你? 你再问一次 means You ask again.

[salihua]

In other items wen yi ci is accepted ... and given the same definition ... ask it again. Fix the database.

[Kayley391485]

you need 再 (zai4) for it to be correct. it means "again"

[Hemlata331379]

Speaker say one sentence answ different. No mention of 'ni'. Then why my answer wrong

[WangDeFu1]

Several times, the input interface on both the web and the android app seem to "retype" what I have typed, and always take the suggestions I have overriden. So if I select the second, "zai", in the list, when it get's "redrawn" I see the chinese selection pop up again when I hit submit, and the first option is chosen, as it is assuming that the input method uses the most recent selection. Why is it "retyping" what I typed, and thus changing my answer and marking it wrong? (I wouldn't think that if the Chinese selection stuff wasn't popping up again after I hit submit.)

[Iwilleatyouall]

I thought you had to put adverbs before the verb. How come we're saying "one time" after the verb to ask instead of before?

[NathanRasm]

"Adverb" is the dustbin part of speech, where we put anything that doesn't fit into a tighter theory. In Chinese grammar, there's a tighter theory of what 一次 is doing. You could call it an iterator, or "auxiliary noun for verbs" if you're Chao Yuan Ren. Whatever you call it, it says how many times the action happens, and it comes after the verb.

[DiamondGirl64]

I put (wèn) 一次, shouldnt that be accepted? 你再(wèn)一次 means, directly, 'You are asking again' which isn't what the English translation says. (Wèn) 一次 is more of an order like or suggestion the English translation implies.

(Excuse me for what I wrote above, I couldnt find the correct word for 'ask')

[e1VpVxkl]

再问 is correct (in my - not Duolingo's) opinion); 再 already means "again".

[Alwaysvickie]

Hint for this sentence if they provide the "you" go ahead and use it.

[Mords3]

I put 再问一遍 and it worked. Are 遍 and 次 the same or do they slightly change the meaning?

[PurityKeUg]

"Zai wen yi ci" accepted as an alternative answer.. Sept 2019.

[PurityKeUg]

再问一次 i.e

[Hemlata331379]

There is no ni in the sentence

[PaulDyer15]

ASK IT AGAIN.....再问一次 where is the 'you' 你 (mine)
ASK IT AGAIN........你再问一次。(yours)
Very puzzled.???????

[72ndChronicle]

问一次再 not acceptedfor some reason when google translator says im right

[MadameSensei]

Please remember that Google Translate does not have an actual brain. At the beginning of the year, I give my students a lecture on tattoos gone wrong (like Ariana Grande's new one on her hand), how Russia was translated as "Mordor" for a couple of weeks, how a teacher in another district accidently swore at her students' parents; the whole Cofeve thing... I collect funny stories. I then play my students some "Google Translate Sings" off of YouTube. In other words, my job as a teacher is in absolutely no danger of being replaced. Use with caution. :) And enjoy being a human who can learn another language and its culture (you can't divorce culture from language; that's one of Google Translate's problems). You'll get there, don't worry!

[Iwilleatyouall]

Duolingo doesn't have a brain either. It, like Google Translate, is the product of human effort, but does not have a human brain. Google Translate, deeply flawed though it is, is constantly improving. Duolingo is also improving, but seems to take a long time sometimes to correct fairly basic oversights.

[salihua]

Zai yi ci still not accepted june 2019

[Acediosus]

That sentence is missing the crucial "wen"

[HouMuza]

You have just said "again one time" but didn't put the "wen" that will give you the "ask" part.

[TanKS5202Apr2020]

This wyestion is ambigous!?

[Esat894105]

'Zai wen' should work, no?

[Polyglot_Person]

Same, that‘s what I thought.

[eduard831]

Why are we using zai?

[Polyglot_Person]

zai means again, so without zai, you would be saying, "ask once" instead of "ask again"

[Lois106894]

One more time doesnt use "you" in the answer, but this imperative does?

[TGisBB]

I put 'ni zai yi ci' and that was wrong. The previous question was "ask one more time" and the answer was 'ni zai yi ci'. Why was 'wen' necessary for the answer to be correct?

[Polyglot_Person]

问 means ask, and so, you must have a verb to complete the sentence.
你 means you, 再 means again, 一次 means once.

[Polyglot_Person]

I wrote "再问" kind of expecting it to be wrong but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't wrong. Of course, it ended up being wrong. Through reading some questions and answers, I realize that the "你" is necessary to direct the sentence.

But for the ending， why is "一次" （once） necessary if ”再" means again? Literally, it should be: "你再问" which means literally "you ask again."

Wouldn't adding "一次" to the end make the new meaning "ask one more time?“

If not, what is the difference between "ask again" and "ask one more time" in Mandarin.

I much appreciate your time for reading through my question.

[HeeDaOh]

It's still the same at June 5th 2020.

[PatrickWhi326361]

Ok cool

[apyang93]

Got it wrong when I answered 问再一次