"你有没有发烧？"
Translation:Do you have a fever?
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English usage permits the omission of the article, particularly when the degree of fever is not quantified.
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Perhaps it depends on the dialect, but "do you have fever?" sounds unusual enough to my Australian English ears that if I were teaching, I'd correct it.
Manĝu terpomojn kaj feliĉiĝu!
The other question "My older brother has a fever", the correct answer is "我的哥哥发烧" - no 有. Why isn't it the same here? Like "你发烧吗？"
发(fā) = to send out/to show
烧 (shāo) = to burn/to cook/fever
发烧 (fāshāo) = to have a fever
If 'fa' is a verb then why isn't it "ni fa bu fa shao" or "ni fa mei fa shao"? Is 'you' needed when it is a question?
Hmm, I found one online dictionary that translates 发烧 as 'fever'. So that might explain why 有 can be used.
I found the following example sentences. 有 is not used in the first example, so that also seems to be possible:
你没发烧。(You dont have a fever)
他没有发烧。(He doesn't have a fever)
我觉得你有发烧。(I think you have a fever)
Do you have fever is marked wrong. I get it that there should be an a before fever but we're learning Chinese, not English.
Oh, English! Oh, English! "Fever" is countable (a fever), and "medicine" isn't! Oh, English!
Surprising that it's have in both languages, as a temperature isn't an object but a state.
A few sentences ago it was discussed that 'fa shao' is a verb. So this is confusing for me.
I'd say that's because we treat it as a symptom or consequence of disease which we "acquire", so we "have" an upset stomach, a rash and a fever.
Could "Don't you have a fever?" also work here, or does the 没 not so interrogative here?