"请问，地铁站在哪儿？"
Translation:Excuse me, where is the subway station?
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地 (dì) = earth/ground/place
铁 (tiě) = iron/weapons/hard/strong
地铁 (dì tiě) = iron ground = subway/metro
how come the first character for subway sounds different when in the sentence compared to when clicked on?
地 can also be used as a particle and is then pronounced "de" (it seems this is the "default" pronunciation for this character when it's all alone) but when it means "ground"/ "land"/ "earth"/ "field" or part of compounds it's pronounced "dì".
Bruh what's wrong with Excuse me, where is the train station? Like dude it means the exact same thing-
The subway systems in Taiwan (including Taipei and Kaohsiung) are also called MRT. But in Mandarin Chinese we call them "捷運/捷运"(jiéyùn), though the concept is generally the same as "地鐵/地铁".
Why "the". Shouldn't it be "a". Otherwise the sentence sounds unrealistic to me, though I am not a native speaker.
You would use "the" when you know there is one in the vicinity of either your current location or the location that you are discussing.
In theory you could add 的 here but it's not necessary. It's like saying 'the station of the subway' or 'the subway's station'; it kind of makes sense but it's not very natural.
Why is this question appearing in my lightning rounds? I have not encountered it in any of my lessons yet.
