"Have you been to our shop?"
Translation:你来过我们的商店吗？
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Curious when JIA should go before shop and when not. Answers don't seem consistent about this in a way that's clear to me yet.
Dont need a measure word with the posessive, I think. Only when you're talking about a quantity of shops : 一家商店/ 这家商店。 Not sure why you would decide to use the specific measure word instead of 个 though...formality?
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think i may finally have it understood...3izziwizz3 covers it right above, but if the sentence was about coming to A SPECIFIC shop, Chinese grammar seems to treat it as a 'count'...whereas MY SPECIFIC shop is clearly possessive, understood as belonging to the speaker and thus doesn't require a 'counting' word
what I wonder is whether 家 would be required in a possessive sentence like: Have you been to (A SPECIFIC) ONE OF OUR shops?" where the speaker has multiple shops and the sentence clearly implies both a count and speaker's possession, but not so specific as to be 'this' or 'that' shop
I think this exercise should also accept "gone to our shop" ("去過我們的商店"), not just "come to our shop" ("來過我們的商店").
It's similar to using the present perfect to talk about your collected experiences:
"Have you (ever) been to our shop"
Rather than:
"Did you go to our shop"
This is a question asking "Have you been to our shop?". I was wondering if the response of "我没来过你们的商店“ would be grammatically acceptable?
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The English now is "Have you been to our shop?" but lai 来 really means "come", whereas "been" is part of the verb "go". Or am I being too fussy? 1Feb'22