"선생님이 앉아 있어요."
Translation:The teacher is sitting.
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For verbs of this type (the name is blanking atm) where they can't really have an object to act on, you instead use ~어/아 있다. 누워 있어 (lying down), 비어 있어 (empty), 써 있어 (standing), 남아 있어 (is [continuously] left).
The term is "intransitive," and I believe sleeping is 자고 because unlike in English, in Korean sleeping is transitive- you 'sleep a sleep,' so to speak.
Really? Can you tell us what the omitted object is? That is, answer 무엇을자고있읍니까?
Maybe during the time between standing and ending in a seated posture? To label a still from a video?
I am not positive (I'm only answering because it has been 3 months since you asked your question), but my understanding is that you would not be able to use 앉아 있으세요 for sitting because 세요 makes it an imperative (it would translate closer to telling someone "be sitting" - or just "sit down".
세요 can be either imperative or honorific. When you're talking about the teacher, you don't need to add the honorific 세, but if you're talking to him or her, you can.
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I'm still unsure, does 앉아 있어요 mean that the teacher is doing the action of putting his bottom on the chair or that he's continuously sat on the chair? i hope you get what i mean :)
the fact that '' the teacher is sitting down '' is wrong is just beyond me
Not so much wrong as not (yet) listed as an accepted answer in the data base.
Maybe it's because in this case the teacher is already seated and not in the action of going to sit
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[Someone correct me if I'm wrong]
This lesson tackles present progressive tense (verb + ing), which is done in Korean by adding -고 있어 or -아/어 있어.
If you want to say "The teacher sits", which is in simple present tense (verb + s). you would say "선생님이 앉아요" instead.
I wrote "Teacher is sitting" and was wrong. Can anyone explain why?