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When using an electric water cooker/boiler, how to translate the following:

The water is boiling.

What would be arguably the most common way in Mandarin to say this in Taiwan?

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  • "The water is boiling": 水開啦.
    – dan
    Commented Oct 30, 2017 at 4:09

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"The water is boiling."

We say 水開了 in Taiwan. Nothing else.

我們都說「水開了」,好像沒有人用其他講法。

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  • Wouldn't 水開了 be the water is boiled and not the water is boiling? Wouldn't the water is boiling be something more like 水烧了 or 烧水了.
    – Mou某
    Commented Oct 31, 2017 at 7:19
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    Here is one: 水滾了
    – Diaph
    Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 7:28
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“水開了/沸了/滾了” are all used in oral. Even “水好了” goes well (好了=燒好了, and you can use it in preparing for bath, either).

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Many ways to describe water boiling, depends on the situation, say temperature or some flow within, of water.

  • 水開了:water has reached at 100°C
  • 水滾了: water has reached at 100°C
  • 水在沸騰: water is going up to 100°C

The first one is the most common way to describe the water is boiled already.

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  • The way you distinguish three sentences doesn’t make any sense. They’re same but different statements anyway.
    – Hao FU
    Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 2:39

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