"The snow was heavy yesterday. We both did not go to work."

Translation: 昨天的雪很大，我们都没有上班。

[James65850]

Can someone explain why 的 is needed?

[Cinnamon5230]

It's not mandatory. Report this if Duolingo considers your translation wrong.

昨天雪很大: Yesterday the snow was heavy.

昨天的雪很大: The snow in yesterday was heavy.

[iyoossaev]

Shouldnt it be snowfall instead of snow in Chinese?

[DestinationVoid]

What's wrong with "昨天的下雪很大，我们都没有上班" ?

[Cinnamon5230]

下雪 is a verb, "to snow".

雪 is the noun "snow".

When you say "the snow in yesterday", the "snow" here is a noun.

[LauraHitch4]

Why do we need 都？

[Cinnamon5230]

For translating "both".

[Nick87867]

Would it not mean "all of us", therefore even more ambiguous plurality than 我们？

[Cinnamon5230]

You are right. Actually it means "all of us". If you want to stress on "both", you can say 我们俩/我们两个人都没有上班。

[Han336780]

Is is accurate to say 昨天下很大的雪，我们都没有上班?

[Cinnamon5230]

下很大的雪 lacks the marker 了 (for completion of an action). 昨天下了很大的雪 would be correct.

[mayateacher]

We both did not go = Neither of us went.

[LeiFeiRalf]

This feels like an odd use of 没有. Is it definitely correct? It feels like a translation from English "we didn't have to go to work".

[LeiFeiRalf]

Oh, looks like i should have read pleco before commenting!

[yarrite]

Where on Pleco specifically?

[LeiFeiRalf]

In the dictionary entry for 没有

[Tim475477]

I think 昨天雪的很大， 我们都没有上班 is correct. DuoLingo did not agree.

[Cinnamon5230]

You should say 昨天的雪很大，我们都没有上班.

[WeiLiang779450]

This is the second time today that I have typed in the exact sentence in Chinese that the computer tells me is the correct answer, but the computer recorded my response as incorrect. Has this happened to anyone else? Twice today, but both times are the first time since I started using this tool.

[Cs1987]

"We both did not go" is a phrase so rarely used in English that it doesn't even register on Google Ngrams (https://bit.ly/2Wj2x9E). It should not be in the default translation. "Neither of us went" or "none of us went" are more natural English phrases.