"Why do you not have a dentist?"

Translation: Warum hast du keinen Zahnarzt?

[TheDreadfulGuy]

Why ''Warum hast du keine Zahnärztin'' is not accepted? I've already reported it though

[GeorgianaTanasa]

My exercise was choosing from existing tags. There was no " keine" tag, just a "keinen"one.

[deactivated user]

Still not accepted. Re-reported.

[HueyCookafew]

A year later, still not fixed despite reports. gg.

[CHXYSW264]

Still hasnt been fixed...

[ThatOtherOneDude]

Duo confirmed sexist.

[Nigorita]

I answered: Warum hast du keine Zahnärztin and Duolingo didn't accept it!
Das ist aber Sexismus :D

[quis_lib_duo]

Melde es doch einfach per Report, wenn der Kampf gegen "Sexismus" Dir so wichtig ist.

[slamRN]

I imagine that Zahnarzt is the default word for "dentist" unless otherwise specified in writing or by circumstance, the dentist IS a woman. If you were translating from English to German you can not just put in Zahnärztin because you feel like it.

[Nigorita]

what you describe is what i call sexism :)
fortunately Duolingo accept the both f/m forms for the english nouns.
this one is an exception which should be corrcted by Duolingo.

[slamRN]

Okay, I agree with you.

[Jamie_Gritton]

But is it a sexism that's baked into a gendered language? I don't want to say things that are unnatural in the language.

[Raisinnoir]

Doch! Amene86's sentence is grammatically correct.

[NayutaIto]

What does it supposed to mean?

[HCDaria]

Does anyone know why it's "Zahnarzt" (without an umlaut) but it's "Zahnärztin" (with an umlaut)?

[K9Rjhoppe]

Can I also word it as," Warum hast du Zahnarzt nicht?".

[saintsauve1]

Zahnärztin still not accepted. Casual sexism, even if unintended by Duolingo

[Weaver733563]

"'Warum hast du keine Zahnärztin" is still not accepted. This casual sexism is depressing.

[t9NOaYHu]

Surely "keine Zahnärztin" and "keinen Zahnarzt" are equally correct? The former is feminine and the latter masculine.

[Alun612958]

Zahnarzt has a dual use : gender specific (male), and non gender specific. Zahnärztin is only gender specific. "Warum hast du keinen Zahnarzt" is, primarily, a non gender specific question : why don't you have any dentist at all? "Warum hast du keine Zahnärztin" is a different question : why don't you have a female dentist (instead of a male one). German, and other European languages, contain many gender specific nouns, whereas English is getting rid of them, and also moving towards non gender specific pronouns as well. Arguably, it is the existence of feminine markers in German nouns that cause the problem. If you don't like the way German works, however, don't blame DL.

[t9NOaYHu]

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