Common Question

bweedin
 May 10, 2010, 02:52 AM posted in I Have a Question

ok so I've been in 浙江的溫州 since March, and people always ask me how long do I plan to stay here, but I can never understand it, and they always seem to ask me in a different way.  So, can anyone please tell me as many ways possible to ask that, so I can be ready for next time?

One way I remember was 你dai4準備。 。 。 damn, I forgot.  but it was something like that. 

 

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xiaophil
 May 10, 2010, 03:12 AM

I'm not sure if these are common or even totally right, but I would say:

你打算呆在温州多久？

你会呆在温州多久？

or replace 多久 with 多长时间

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lujiaojie
 May 10, 2010, 04:26 AM

你打算在温州呆多久？
Nǐ dǎsuàn zài Wēnzhōu dāi duōjiǔ?

你会在温州呆多久？
Nǐ huì zài Wēnzhōu dāi duōjiǔ?

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bweedin
 May 12, 2010, 11:58 PM

“你在這裡呆準備多久？”呢？

Does that make any sense?  I think someone asked me that.  I know that ”準備“ was definitely in the sentence.

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suansuanru

Just need to change the word order slightly.

你準備在這裡呆多久？

here 凖備=打算。

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bweedin
 May 17, 2010, 06:29 PM

謝謝你們