"Credit cards are not accepted here."

Translation: 这里不收信用卡。

[Dave168907]

My confusion is caused by the passive sentence in English where "credit cards" is the subject. In the Chinese sentence, "credit cards" seems to be the object. Can someone enlighten me?

[TerminasDeity]

Its separately translated "this place no receive trust use card".
So indeed the sentence is active in Chinese.

[DheerajBhaskar]

same doubt

[Dave168907]

So, the sentence literally says "This place does not accept credit cards.", right?

[NathanRasm]

I suspect it doesn't have a literal subject. "Here [they] don't take credit cards." You can compare it to these sentences I found on tatoeba.org:

这里不能停车。"[You] can't park here," not "This place can't park cars."
这里无法呼吸。"[One is] unable to breathe here," not "This place is unable to breathe."

I checked a few dozen sentences and didn't see any where 这里 is unambiguously a subject.

[Zaldrizes2]

I was always told that “这／那／哪” + “里／儿” were interchangeable and matters of dialect （Beijingers tend to add a nasally r-sound to a lot more words). Is there a reason "这儿不收信用卡“ is treated as wrong?

[Riven333]

Is there anything wrong with "信用卡在这里不收"?

[Ynhockey]

Second sentence in this exercise about not accepting credit cards
.. I wonder if they are trying to tell us something.

[DheerajBhaskar]

They all want cash only

[radami1]

Do the Chinese have something against passive voice?

[grippygecko]

For a sentence like this, the Chinese way to say it doesn't use passive voice is all. When Chinese does use a passive construction you will probably find the character 被.

E.g.
那棵树被大风刮倒了

The tree was uprooted by the gale.