"너구리가 여우를 못 가르쳐요."

Translation:The raccoon dog cannot teach the fox.

September 22, 2017

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/benulo
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Ancient Korean proverb


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Alma_Tadema

What does it mean?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SvedishPlumber

Dont leave us hanging!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Wavesofkhushi

Maybe the smart can't teach the clever as he will find some way to get rid of it


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ling.ko

I am not sure. I haven't heard this proverb or can't remember it. At least, it is rarely known.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Subrisus

Just in case this was bothering anyone else; I found out that 너구리 is raccoon dog and 미국너구리 (American Raccoon Dog) is how you say raccoon.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/pluviositie

a regular raccoon that lives in Korea = 대한민국미국너구리


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Crrct_my_Eng_thx

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Futurulus

picture of raccoon dog from Wikipedia

^ a 너구리, according to Korean Wikipedia. Pretty cute!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/pjtpjt

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy raccoon dog?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Ade202

The raccoon cannot teach now, as he has been wiped out by Thanos.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/FrozenTundraFoxy

Is this raccoon dog also called a Tanuki? As like the Japanese animal?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Crrct_my_Eng_thx

Yes. A raccoon dog = an east Asian raccoon, so includes tanuki(たぬき; Japanese raccoon).


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Yev613466

Translated with a articles instead of the, and it resulted in error. ❤❤❤! Seriously? The purpose is to teach korean not English, right? It will be more comfortable if the developers pay less atention to articles


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/MansiSriva3

Lol, duo turned the swear word to hearts


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/slowsummits

which register is the verb ending 쳐요 ?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SuperSizedSmiley

Otherwise the fox will chase the raccoon dog around the park and find him.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ngl127

가르져요 how is that built? can someone explain me, please? :(


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Futurulus

가르치- is the root (가르치다—note: ㅊ, not ㅈ). Add ㅓ요 to make the present tense, but then theㅣandㅓmerge to make ㅕ = 가르쳐요.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/nowwepanic

Why teach proverbs when we don't know anything about them?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ariadnehals

The voice is different


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/NoIb19

dang,a fox is not a TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/KarimahMuh

Why raccoon dog??


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Nova696842

Fox was not in the options for me to choose ❤❤❤

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