It’s not that I understand half the sentance, I understand almost every other word. This means I can’t make an actual sentance out of it and don’t know what this means at all. Much good 6 years has done me.
That’s about as far as I got with my two weeks of duolingo lmao.
Edit:
的 means “of”, so my guess is that the phrase before it says pronouns, and after it says gendered. So like
“Do you use pronouns with/of genders?”
Or arranged more for English speakers:
“Do you use gendered pronouns?”
Edit 2:
Looks like I got it backwards. It’s “Do you use Gender with/of pronouns?” So immediately preceding 的 is likely to be the symbols for “gender/gendered”.
I guess I’ll find out when I get to those symbols and learn what they mean!
Hi. The caption in the image reads 你们用性别的代词吗？. Literally, it translates to “you (pl.) (你们) use (用) gendered (性别的) pronouns (代词) [question particle] (吗)?” As you have guessed, it means “Do you (pl.) use gendered pronouns?”
However, the way this sentence is worded is pretty awkward and gives off the impression that it was written by a machine translator. It sounds as if the speaker actually did not know whether they use gendered pronouns or not, while it’s supposed to sound like that the speaker just learned that they use gendered pronouns and is asking for confirmation.
A much better way to write the sentence would be 你们用的代词有性别？, which means “The pronouns you use are gendered?” Note that the translation is not “Are the pronouns you use gendered?” (Yes, I did not use a 吗. Only when the equivalent question in English begins with a Do, Will, Have, Are, etc. should you use a 吗.)
Wow, this is awesome! Thank you so much! I finally understand why some questions have 吗ma and others don’t need it.
Duolingo is great because it’s free, but I don’t think it replaces talking to actual native speakers.
Can I ask you something? In duolingo, it rarely “tells” you the definitions of things, and leaves you to suss it out from context, but one I’ve been struggling with is duoshao多少.
In context it also appears to signify a question, but only questions regarding numbers. I think I’m missing something in my understanding of it though.
An example it gives is 他的电话号码是多少，which, to my understanding is like, “your phone number is what?” Or “What is your phone number?”
Is my understanding correct? If I wanted to ask how many apples you have, would I use 多少？
I understood about half of those Chinese words, my 6 years of Chinese are starting to pay off.
what does the half you understand say
It’s not that I understand half the sentance, I understand almost every other word. This means I can’t make an actual sentance out of it and don’t know what this means at all. Much good 6 years has done me.
你们 = you（plural).
吗 = indicates a question.
So “Do you something something something?”
That’s about as far as I got with my two weeks of duolingo lmao.
Edit:
的 means “of”, so my guess is that the phrase before it says pronouns, and after it says gendered. So like
“Do you use pronouns with/of genders?”
Or arranged more for English speakers:
“Do you use gendered pronouns?”
Edit 2:
Looks like I got it backwards. It’s “Do you use Gender with/of pronouns?” So immediately preceding 的 is likely to be the symbols for “gender/gendered”.
I guess I’ll find out when I get to those symbols and learn what they mean!
Hi. The caption in the image reads 你们用性别的代词吗？. Literally, it translates to “you (pl.) (你们) use (用) gendered (性别的) pronouns (代词) [question particle] (吗)?” As you have guessed, it means “Do you (pl.) use gendered pronouns?”
However, the way this sentence is worded is pretty awkward and gives off the impression that it was written by a machine translator. It sounds as if the speaker actually did not know whether they use gendered pronouns or not, while it’s supposed to sound like that the speaker just learned that they use gendered pronouns and is asking for confirmation.
A much better way to write the sentence would be 你们用的代词有性别？, which means “The pronouns you use are gendered?” Note that the translation is not “Are the pronouns you use gendered?” (Yes, I did not use a 吗. Only when the equivalent question in English begins with a Do, Will, Have, Are, etc. should you use a 吗.)
Wow, this is awesome! Thank you so much! I finally understand why some questions have 吗ma and others don’t need it.
Duolingo is great because it’s free, but I don’t think it replaces talking to actual native speakers.
Can I ask you something? In duolingo, it rarely “tells” you the definitions of things, and leaves you to suss it out from context, but one I’ve been struggling with is duoshao多少.
In context it also appears to signify a question, but only questions regarding numbers. I think I’m missing something in my understanding of it though.
An example it gives is 他的电话号码是多少，which, to my understanding is like, “your phone number is what?” Or “What is your phone number?”
Is my understanding correct? If I wanted to ask how many apples you have, would I use 多少？
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