"商店在超市的旁边。"

Translation: The shop is next to the supermarket.

[saintlysword]

I would love it if duolingo placed pinyin in the hover notes because this is almost impossible for me to make out the pronunciation of the audio

[EdMrUN]

if there is pinyin how can you learn to read

[BenoitMnar]

Nice answer.

[Tsen107548]

You mean listen right? But the audio... gosh the audio could be better..

[roman2095]

If you are using the Chrome browser install the Zhongwen dictionary extension. Then you get the pinyin plus the translation when you hover over a character.

[Haengsong]

他说中文说得非常标准。要是你还听不懂的话，你中文水平就还不太高啦。

[bill949306]

So the supermarket is next to the shop isnt the same as the shop is next to the supermarket?????

[DariusLee3]

Sensibly that would be the same, but the sentence requires you to put "shop" as the main subject

[maartendoc]

超 (chāo) = to exceed/super-
市 (shì) = market/city
超市 (chāoshì) = supermarket

旁 (páng) = beside/one side
边 (biān) = side (左边 = left)
旁边 = lateral/to the side/side

[Andrew-Lin]

商店在超市的旁邊。
(Yes, "邊" is notoriously complex in traditional form. Sorry :) )

[NaiyahOsip]

what does the 4th charter mean?

[DariusLee3]

超 has some meanings. In this context it means "surpassing", while 級 means "level/ class", so the compound word 超級 means "better than normer" i.e. super

One other meaning that is seldom found in words is "beyond limits", e.g. 超自然 literally supernatural, 超聲波 which is ultrasonic

[Gabrielle145359]

It is part if the word for supermarket. 超市=Supermarket.