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- "先生をよんでください。"
"先生をよんでください。"
Translation:Please call the teacher.
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i wrote "please call a teacher" and was marked wrong... doesn't the unspecified nature of 先生 allow for a/the?
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I suspect it shoild be reported. All the languages that don't use articles have this issue in beta.
よむ means to read and よぶ means to call. Both words てform is よんで(yes, it is very confusing ) and if you 'read' the given sentence, then it doesn't make sense in translating it to please read the teacher but make sense in please call the teacher.
Well, I was taught in a previous lesson that my dog sells hats. I think reading the teacher is not surprising. Kanji will solve everything.
I do not really agree with you : "my dog sells hat" is a funny sentence but completely logical. You could hear it in comic books or cartoon for exemple, but "please read the teacher"? It's pretty difficult to imagine a situation like that, especially when you know that the verb "to call" has the same te form, isn't it ? ^^'
Maybe if it was a Super Smash Bros match against your teacher? Though I'll admit that that is a bit far fetched...
basically in any form of competition you can "read your opponent like a book".
Wait for them to put kanji in, tbh. Other than that, clicking on the word on mobile gives you a definition relevant to the answer
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Is there a kanji for yonde? I remember yonde meaning to call but I thought it meant like to call out or yell to someone. I guess I'm wrong? Also, how is yonde different from yobimasu??
There is a kanji for almost everything. Yonde is the -te form, yobimasu is the present/future polite form
よんで (or 呼ぶ, in regular present tense) is indeed to call out/for or yell. So this sentence means "call a doctor" in the sense of "go get a doctor", not "call one on the phone".
Would it be correct to replace teacher with professor? It got marked wrong, but sometimes duolingo is needlessly finicky, so I'm not sure.
Not really. Technically 先生 can mean doctor, but only in the sense of someone with a doctorate, a PhD. That's "Dr." as in the title, not the profession. That would be 医者 (いしゃ).
Accepted answer is "please call the teacher", but "Can you please call the teacher?" is not accepted? Surely this should be accepted out of pragmatics.
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I had this question also. If this is not a correct way to read this, can someone provide the correct way to say "Please call me 'teacher',"?
You'd have to change the 'direct object' particle を into the 'quote' particle と, as in: 先生とよんでください
These type what you hear questions are kind of annoying. Sometimes kanji is required, and sometimes it is not allowed. 呼んで（よんで）was not accepted and there's not even an option to report it for that on desktop.
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I think of "yonde" as hailing/flagging down, like you stick your arm out to get a bus/taxi to stop, or put your hand in the air to get the teacher's attention.
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Sensei has very specific meaning in English. It usually refers either 1) A Japanese language teacher or 2) A martial arts instructor. For any 'normal' teacher, you need to translate it into 'teacher'.
