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Sentence #4400795

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 becky82 becky82 January 9, 2024 January 9, 2024 at 3:02:00 AM UTC link Permalink

I think there's two issues with the Chinese 你在监狱做什么: (a) it lacks a Chinese question mark (i.e., ？), and (b) I may be wrong, but I don't believe it corresponds to the English here; I think it means "What do you do in prison?"

I would expect the Chinese for "What were you in prison for?" to be something like 你为什么在监狱里？ or 你是因为什么入了狱？ There's a bunch of ways of phrasing it.

DaoSeng DaoSeng January 10, 2024, edited January 10, 2024 January 10, 2024 at 1:26:24 AM UTC, edited January 10, 2024 at 1:27:48 AM UTC link Permalink

I added a tag for the question mark to be added, I unlinked the English, I added your suggested translation to the English, and I added an English translation to this sentence.

CK CK January 10, 2024 January 10, 2024 at 2:11:35 AM UTC link Permalink

@knifegod

You have several other sentences that don't have final punctuation.

You can find them all here to edit them.

https://tatoeba.org/en/activiti...es_of/knifegod

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #2643461What were you in prison for?.

你在监狱做什么

added by knifegod, July 23, 2015
➜ #2643461What were you in prison for?

linked by knifegod, July 23, 2015
➜ #2643461What were you in prison for?

unlinked by DaoSeng, January 10, 2024
➜ #12261018What are you doing on prison grounds?

linked by DaoSeng, January 10, 2024
你在监狱做什么?

edited by Pfirsichbaeumchen, January 10, 2024
你在监狱做什么？

edited by Pfirsichbaeumchen, January 10, 2024
➜ #12264404Was machst du im Gefängnis?

linked by Yorwba, January 12, 2024