"Tiu sekretario ŝatas sian profesion."

Translation: That secretary likes his profession.

[TheDevLee]

Always professionally gender-neutral here at Duolingo

[Ginny6789]

Sian - his? :p

[vikungen]

sia(n) = his/her/it's own

It is a reflexive pronoun

Li ŝatas lian profesion = He (Bob) likes his (Jack's) profession.

Li ŝatas sian profesion = He (Bob) likes his (own) profession

[mizinamo]

Yes, presuming the secretary is male.

It can be "his", "her", "its", or "their", depending on the subject.

[ben.ohannesian]

I entered "That secretary likes her profession." to test this, and it accepted it. (The sentence as shown in Esperanto is ambiguous.)

As mentioned in the section notes, occupational nouns such a "sekretario" are non gender specific in their base forms.

[SquirlRat]

I entered "The secretary likes their profession" which is accepted too! I think this best preserves the meaning of the Esperanto sentence which doesn't indicate gender. (Yay for singular 'they')

[kholden83]

I got the pick-some-tiles version, so i had to say "he".

[NautilusMo]

Me too, "their" would be a better translation.

[AdamScott794079]

Cxu vi jxus azuuuuuumas gelian sekson?

[Williams_Dakota]

Why isn't, "That secretary likes its profession," accepted?

[mizinamo]

"Secretary" (almost?) always refers to a human, and in English we don't usually refer to humans older than a baby as "it".

[Williams_Dakota]

Maybe not too commonly, but we still do.

[AlLMRX]

So it appears that I can't spell secretary in either English or Esperanto without help.