"田中さんのお母さんは先生だと思います。"
Translation:I think that Mr. Tanaka's mother is a teacher.
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Agree. "I think Tanaka's mother is a teacher" is a legitimate answer.
I disagree that the English translation requires an honorific. If it were さま then I would agree, a Mr. Ms. Mrs. would be necessary, but there really isn't a one-to-one translation for honorifics into English. I mean, how should we handle the dimunitive くん or ちゃん ?
Personally, I like simply to use -san even in English translations, simply because there is no direct English equivilent. After all you do not add Mr and Mrs to given names, the way you can for -san.
Actually, it's "だ と", two separate words/particals. The だ here is the plain form of です. If the sentence lacked "I think", you would write "田中さんのお母さんは先生です". But because we add "I think", we need to say the sentence in plain form.
と思う is the particle と and the verb. You'll see this many times in Japanese! Duolingo also teaches と言う, and the grammar for と思う and と言う are similar.
gender specification is needed. if none is given then "tanaka" or "tanaka-san" should be accepted
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It didn't accept 'I think tanaka's mother is a teacher' even though we didn't have gender... Okay then.
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Elsewhere DL accepts "Tanaka-san," but here it suddenly does not? -_-
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I left off the Mr. entirely since that's how I translate x-san in my head, always. After all, yeah, you can use it with personal names, and it doesn't have a gender, etc. It gets thrown in always so you have to deduce from context when it means something in English and when you can leave it out. It also depends on the level of politeness. When I see "I think" at the end of a sentence, it often implies a higher level of humbleness so I probably should have left the Mr. (or Ms.) in.
because は follows 田中さん の お母さん. This tells us that Tanaka's mother is the subject/focus of the subordinate clause not 先生.
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Is it any different to say "I think Mrs. Tanaka's mother is the teacher." Because that also wasn't accepted.
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お母さん is also wife? I always hear that word used for "your wife", but it was marked wrong.
I think you're confusing おくさん which means wife with おかあさん which means mother.
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"I think tanaka's mother is a teacher" was marked wrong. Reported.
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The 's in the english translation is wrong. It should just be Tanakas mother. 's means "is".
