"My last name is Li, and yours?"
Translation:我姓李，你呢？
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What the difference between "我 姓李" and "我 姓 李"? Just because the spacing?
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The former is "my surname is Li". The latter could be grammatically incorrect, makes no sentence, because there are two verbs, while you could still argue the verb is jiao, but I don't think it sounds natural.
Hi, I input in pingyin and my answer matches with the key, however, it reported my answer was wrong. There is no space for me to attach the screenshot here, but if you want, I can provide. Many thanks.
I had the same problem. The solution ended up being punctuation - I was typing "我姓李, 你呢?" instead of "我姓李，你呢？"
Note the "," / "，" and "?" / "？" differences. The longer version of punctuation is the correct one for Duolingo. This will vary based on your computer, but for Windows 10 the default for me is to hit CTRL+punctuation to produce the fixed width versions and get this answer correct.
I agree; this is a problem. I wish that I knew how to report it so that could be fixed.
Without the tone, I really have no way of figuring out which character to use for Li.
Haven't Li at my options! That's the second time that it happen. What a ❤❤❤❤ is happening here?
Because 姓 is a verb.
The verb 姓 (xing) means "to be called, to be designated, to be named", referring to the last name or surname. For example my name is "John Williams", so in Chinese, someone ask for me what's my surname:
你 姓 什么？
Ni shing shima?
You surname how? (How you are surnamed?)
So I answer:
我 姓 Williams, 你呢？ Wo shing Williams, you what? I surname Williams, you what?
For to refer about the first name, we use the verb Jiao 叫 ”to be called"
Wo jiao John. 我 叫 John.
The word 的 (de) means possession, or "of", and is used with noums.
我的 (wode): "my" 你的 (nide): "yours" 他的 (tade): "his" 她的 (tade): "her"
xing basically means 'surname is', and shi would mean my surname is is... de is a verb, and xing is also a verb, so it wouldn't work. it's just a grammar thing.
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Apparently since 姓 is a verb it should be 我的姓氏是李, although I think yours is also correct.
There's also a typo at the end, it should be 呢.
I had this exactly correct except for the comma and question mark, but i still had the space, I am so confused ..
我姓李， 你呢？was my answer and duo marked it wrong, saying 我姓李，你呢？was the correct one, despite being exactly the same as the one i typed?????
No idea why, but putting it without any punctuation or spaces works.
I put the right answer but it still says I am wrong. When I checked it it is the same exact sentence. DUO GET YO BUG FIXED
They are two different words, 女生(Woman) is like female and 姓 is surname.
Example 1 : 我是一个女孩啊 (I'm a woman)
Example 2 : 我的姓是许，你呢? (Based of that)
I was just marked incorrect for this... The correct solution literally matched what I typed out.
This is the last exercise and I can't finish the streak because the answer wants "Li" but the only available character is the full name
It said translate "my last name is Li, and yours?" But "李" wasnt an option. Then i got it wrong and it used 李 in the correct answer.
Get told my answer is wrong, but it is indistinguishable from the correct answer