"Kati is looking for doctors and finds secretaries."

Translation: Kati orvosokat keres és titkárnőket talál.

[Luzibr]

Why not "kati keres orvosokat..."

[RyagonIV]

Wrong contrast. You're putting focus on "Kati" here, so the listener would expect a different subject in the latter part of the sentence, like

"Kati keres orvosokat és Péter talál." - "Kati is looking for doctors and Péter finds them."

[Andrew359786]

Why not meg or pedig instead of és?

[vvsey]

Neither of them are good here.

"Pedig could be used in an "and not" kind of situation, or in an "and he, on the other hand" situation:

Kati orvosokat keres, nem pedig titkárnőket - Kati is looking for doctors and not for secretaries.
Kati orvosokat keres, Péter pedig titkárnőket - Kati is looking for doctors, and Péter (on the other hand) is looking for secretaries.

And "meg" could replace "pedig" in the second sentence above:
Kati orvosokat keres, Péter meg titkárnőket.

[Patricia460976]

How about "hanem?"

[RyagonIV]

Hanem only works if the first clause is negative. The template is "A does not happen, hanem (but rather) B happens."

• Kati nem orvosokat keres, hanem titkárokat. - Kati is not looking for doctors, but instead for secretaries.

[Patricia460976]

As in "Kati is looking for doctors but instead finds secretaries.'" This doesn't work?

[RyagonIV]

No, you need the nem to use the hanem.

[Pahuus]

Kati orvosokat keres és talál titkárnőket.

Why is this not accepted as right answer?

[cosmo-pedant]

"Titkarokat" (with a mark above the letter "a" and without the letter "n") is a new word for me. Does this word refer to a male person?

[RyagonIV]

Titkárnő is just the female form of the male/general titkár. :)

[GregWood15]

How about "de"?

[RyagonIV]

Greg, de would translate as "but" here, but it wouldn't change the meaning of the sentence.

[GregWood15]

Thanks. I thought the content of the sentence implied "but", so I felt Duolingo should have accepted it.