"张老师，晚安！"
Translation:Good night, Teacher Zhang!
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Sounds like someone's having an inappropriate relationship with his/her teacher. :p
I literally come to the comments when something like this comes up to see these lol
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晚安 can be said instead of 再见 when parting ways at night. Think of night school, college, extracurricular activities in the evening, etc.
Also, I believe people who work in schools address each other as 老师 as well, so this could be two night school teachers leaving work for the day.
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Usually this kind of comment get harshly downvoted since Duolingo comment is very exclusive for educational purpose. But I'm glad your humor resonate lol :)
Typically you use "晚上好(wǎnshànghǎo)" to mean "Good evening." and use "晚安" when ending a conversation or when going to bed.
I know some speakers in Taiwan use "晚安" as greeting, and I am not sure if this is the case in mainland China.
You are right. I live in China and 晚安 is never used. 你好 is used for all greeting and 再见 is the most common good bye. Many people will simply say 早 in morning before work.
I feel like good evening is almost always a greeting, and not what you say when leave taking. Is that how you see it too? I might say 'have a good evening' but not 'good evening' to say goodbye.
晚安 has the meaning of good night as well as good evening, so it works as well
Well... sometimes college students or even high school might have to stay at school at night, so they might say goodnight to their teachers. My Dad and Mom used to stay at their college classes at night.
Having just finished a band preformance Band Student: 老师，晚安!
It could probably work with a lot of extracurriculars or late night classes, but that's what first came to mind for me.
also, in America we don't go to our teacher and say teacher zhang, no we call the teacher mr.zhang
Wouldn't the context make it evening or night? It seems elsewhere 晚 can be used for both evening and night.
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This is inconsistent...sometimes it marks the response wrong for putting the names first and then it marks the tesponse wrong for putting Good might first. Is there a rule?
Why did my teachers from elementary to high school teach me that 晚安 is good evening? :-(
Teacher Zhang or Zhang Teacher - makes no difference in English since we never say Teacher Surname anyways (we do say Professor Wang though)
Father and mother, good night was accepted but Zhang teacher, good night was not accepted. -.-
good evening was marked in correct and should be an acceptable English translation
