"Do you think tomorrow will be a sunny day?"

Translation: 你觉得明天会是晴天吗？

[nao657961]

Is 是 absolutely necessary here?

[CinnamonTe1]

Yes 是 is necessary because 晴天 is technically a noun meaning "sunny day." The adjective for "sunny" is 晴朗. It might be more common to use 晴天 in Chinese, whereas in English we just say "sunny."

明天是晴天 - Tomorrow is a sunny day / Tomorrow is sunny
明天很晴朗 - Tomorrow is sunny (and cloudless)

[JustinGSJ]

Thank you, CinnamonTe1! This is the sort of thing that really helps (me, at least). Have a lingot. It would be good if Duo marked parts of speech as such since, in many cases, it is far from obvious just by usage.

[Jadayah]

I have the same question

[KX3.]

Yes, it is. You can think of it as serving the function of "be", so without it, "Do you think tomorrow will a sunny day?", the sentence won't be complete.

[FriedrichGrauz]

Can you omit the 会?

[VaVuthea]

Yes. You can omit 会 in this sentence

[maartendoc]

Yes duolingo accepts it without 会

[FrankLobo22]

I did and it accepted.

[RonaldChan14]

"你觉得明天会晴天吗？" should be accepted.

[Sue982688]

I wrote 你觉得明天天气会是晴天吗？Is this acceptable? Another sentence had "today it's cold" as the translation for金天的天气很冷。 So i thought that 天气was often required.

[Daniel56704]

I wrote that too. And i think it's in the same sense correct to write that but its meaning is slightly different. It would mean 'do you think tomorrow's weather will be fine/sunny?'. In some questions on duolingo these are technicalities and are accepted as right and in others it isn't accepted... All I can say duolingo is only really useful as a support aid to proper chinese language classes, by itself it's not that great and this question shows that.

[Maximilien369]

You actually wrote “金天” instead of “今天”。

[LauraHitch4]

I have never learned 会是 before, would be great to have more questions with this grammer point in :)

[hippietrail]

I think it's just literally "will be". It's just that usually after 會 we've seen a verb whereas this time we're seeing a noun
(Even though we might expect an adjective like "sunny" in English that's not what happens in Chinese.

[3VdObMzF]

Can a native Chinese tell me whether it is really unacceptable to put
明天 in the first position in the sentence? thank you in advance

[KX3.]

In this sentence, no it shouldn't be there. Unless "Tomorrow, do you think it will be a sunny day?" is acceptable. Perhaps, but it does sound a little off.

[Eduardincss]

”你觉得明天晴天吗“
为什么错了？

[AnnaVolna]

Same question... It's misleading that Duo first teaches us that 今天晴天 is fine, then all of a sudden requires 是 in between

[EnsignR]

Why is it 会有冷, but 会是晴天?

[hippietrail]

Is it also wrong to put the 是 before the 会?

[DariusLee3]

Yes it is wrong to do that. 會是 is a common term meaning "will be"

[Maximilien369]

“你觉得明天是不是晴天？” Why is it not accepted? Please help me! “拜托！”

[groupebijou]

Would "你想明天会是晴天吗” work?

[Duck_Chronicles]

It is inconsistent to require the 是 here but not in other "will be" sentences.

[Lee581186]

Would "你觉得明天的天气会是晴天吗?" also be valid? Using "明天的天气" instead of just "明天" - tomorrow's weather will be sunny vs tomorrow will be sunny.