New answers tagged equivalent-phrase
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I don't get the meaning of syntactic structure but I guess yes there is equivalent in Chinese:
(1) Jenny 就是 Jenny
(2) 你/她不太像你/她(it's not that like you/she)
(3) 是他们吗？
(4) 他是我，她是你（but we would probaly say 他演我，她演你）
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If we're going for succinctness in speech you could opt for something like:
我有个姐、有个妹。
I believe that this is the most natural & shortest way to express this.
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我有一个姐姐和一个妹妹
This is good.
我是三个姐妹中中间的一个
This is usually expressed in another way: "我家一共姐仨，我是老二", or "我妈(我爸)有三个闺女，我是老二".
我有两个姐妹
It might work, but I don't often hear it.
And by the way, maybe related to his question or not: If one says "我有两个兄弟"， it often means he has two younger brothers (and gives no information about how many older brothers he has),...
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You can say
我有一姊一妹 (I have one older and one younger sister)
In general, using literary form reduce the length of a sentence
Example:
"I have three older sisters, one older brother and one younger sister" can be translated as:
"我有三个姐姐，一个哥哥和一个妹妹"
"我有三姊一兄和一妹"
"She is the mother of three sons and two daughters" can be translated as:
"她是三个儿子和两个女儿的母亲" ...
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