"我们的儿子在美国。"
Translation:Our son is in the US.
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Feb. 10, 2019 - that was the answer i put and it was accepted. I agree, that is the most normal translation.
Mostly true but some would say areas such as the Carribeans would also count as america.
Yes, but when people say America they are nearly always referring to the USA.
They do, but in ever movie, book, customs line, etc talking about the united states or its citizens, they always say Ameica or Americans. Like, "Bond, you're looking for an American."
Since there is no plural in Chinese, if you want to say "our sons are in the US", you would write the same sentence. Am I right?
Isnt 'men' plural in this case for the parents... Because they stated its a male son 'er zi'... You dont pluralize for one child/son when its singular
们 is used to pluralize personal pronouns e.g. 我们， 他们， 你们。 You will often hear that Chinese only pluralize pronouns however this is not entirely true as people nouns are often pluralized using 们 eg. Son - 儿子 sons - 儿子们 child - 孩子 children - 孩子们. To the best of my knowledge objects are never pluralized.
It leaves me frustrated that I spend more time guessing which answer duolingo will accept than actually translating the sentence. It is my fault but I don't retain the information I just assume based on the given translations
I never face that, and I'm a non native speaker
It doesn't matter if your answer gets accepted in what way.. what matters is that you understand if you got the idea of how to write it right
You would need 住在 for that, not just 在。In this sentence, he could just be visiting it.
住在 (Living in) is missing from the exercise, so our son is in the US is the acceptable answer
why is this a mistake? -Our son is in US? without “the”??? the meaning of the sentence is not lost.
Seriously though, there is no plural form in mandarin so why should it not accept our "sons"?
My answer was our son lives in the U.S. and it was marked incorrect?
It happened to me too, to be honest it's so frustrating, the answer which accepted by duolingo
He is studying for his PhD in Harward. He will be a doctor for the Lawers and a lawyer for the doctors.
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My answer: 我们的儿子在英国 was rejected. while the yours: "我们的儿子在美国。" Duo please, please do something. It is really frustrating. This happened so many times and I have posted in this forum couple dozens times already.
Give me a break! It says america it should be answered as America. If youvwant to say us say us. Also, reducing england to UK? I guess you think we shiuld refer to china as asia or vietnam as asia. What is your problem with specific names?
Because it doesn't mean that. 住在 would mean that, simple 在 not to my best knowledge.
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"Our son's in America" should also be accepted as "son is" is often contracted to "son's" in everyday English.
Maybe one pronounces it that way but it is incorrect written form. The apostrophy denotes posession. Son's is not a contraction.
You are wrong. apostrophy-s can be used for either posession or contraction. It may not be formal, but "son's" rather than "son is" is not only correct English, but I'd argue more fluent English