"You are coming to see me tomorrow? That's great!"
Translation:你明天来看我？好极了！
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If that is correct then how do you distinguish rhetorical questions from statements in spoken chinese?
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It is not correct. You can distinguish such questions in the same way you would in English, I expect... depending on context.
That seems to mean this cannot be correct, as the alternative is the absurdity that the Chinese don't use rhetorical questions.
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It is unnecessary. There is no 吗 because it is not strictly needed in the question here. It can also convey, as in this case, excitement.
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What about using 啊 to convey excitement or emotion instead of an actual question word like 吗？I know that Duo teaches about the 啊 character in a later skill. Would that be more natural for a native speaker to say? 你明天来看我啊!
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It can, but the first thing I thought of when I read that sentence was surprise, pleasant or not.
Better to say, "嗎" for excitement and as a question. I see this more commonly than "啊"。
I agree that placing 明天 first should be accepted, but you forgot 看。I also wonder if 见我 could be acceptable in addition to 看我?
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It is acceptable but the given translation is more accurate.
见我 is more what a teacher says to a student, or writes at the end of his or her essay, for example, so it wouldn't be appropriate here.
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This seems to be a recurring question, so I will endeavour to answer it here:
Why is there no 吗 in the question？
It is unnecessary. There is no 吗 because it is not strictly needed in the question here. It can also convey, as in this case, excitement.
When I see it, the first thing that comes to mind is that the speaker is excited for whoever is going to visit tomorrow, for example. It can also, as has been pointed out, be a rhetorical question, but that is just one situation where this can be used.
I think the problem here is also that the English sentence has poor grammar and should be "You are coming to see me tomorrow." Alternatively, they should change the English sentence to "Are you coming to see me tomorrow?" and include the 吗
English is a question. But you can't write a question with given characters
I left off the "That is great part" and it took the answer. I don't think it should have.
