"Vera Ivanovna is our favourite teacher."

Translation: Вера Ивановна — наш любимый учитель.

[meta7gear]

Does knowing the gender of the subject, in this case a female teacher, not allow us to change the adjectives? eg.

вера иванова наша любимая учитель?

[IngridaKilt]

I thought the same thing.
But my guess would be Вера Ивановна наша любимая учительница.
I've been studying Russian as my second foreign language for 7 years and this is a really basic sentence.
Hopefully somebody will improve the Russian course soon.

[RobertGeor16]

I would have used учительница too. Is this a common grammatical error made in day-to-day Russian?

[AnnieBonda]

No, we all say учительница, I gues this is mistake by Duolingo

[IvanHarlok]

Does Russian have a gendered version of "teacher"? For example in Croatian, teacher can be učitelj or učiteljica.

[AnnieBonda]

Yes, it's учительница

[Breadfish100]

Is "Вера Ивановна – наша любимая преподавательница" not acceptable? I'm curious as to why учитель was used over преподавательница or учительница.

[Momo_the_Avenger]

Препадавательница is not a teacher per se, but a person who educates small children (like in a kindergarten).

[QurtQurt]

I suppose you confused Преподавательница with Воспитательца. Both Учитель(ница) and Преподаватель(ница) are suitable here.

[SovietRussianKGB]

Why? It is so clear that Vera Ivanovna because of that damn Patronym...

[Ella821922]

The language has changed towards being more modern, it's not necessary anymore to gender the word teacher. You can use "учитель" about both men and women.

[EmmochkaT]

Shouldn't this be feminine, since Vera is a female name: любимая учительница????

[not_a_thing]

I am under the impresion that 'Вера' is a male name...

[NoamKriten]

I think in this case it would be Иванов and not Ивановна