"What is the teacher's last name?"

Translation: 老师姓什么？

[Vogeltet]

Im confused with the correct position of the words

[Tupper9]

I also think there is a lack of grammar explanations. It is ok for the most part and sometimes the comments help out, but I gues youtube has to help with the rest.

[Sparkles949068]

same here very confused

[FirePhoenix121]

samsies

[Katie672596]

老师贵姓 isnt a correct answer. Why not?

[mikeyjkk]

It probably should be accepted.

When learning here it is good to look up examples in Pleco. I now realise 'shen me' can be used in a few different ways.

[ValrieAyra]

I don't understand , it was good few questions earlier ...

[TimyScar33]

Its easy when you do a lot of lessons then you get the hang of it

[rod01francis]

To differentiate a statement to a question, we se 什么 + ?

[Derek541534]

really wish duolingo had a course where they actually taught the grammar

[MatthewYung]

Can we also write 老师姓是什么?

[roman2095]

I think that 姓 is a verb here (to be surnamed) so that would probably rule out using another verb like 是 too

[GTKizzle]

老师的姓是什么？Can this not fit as an acceptable translation?

[RiddhiDhar]

是 is used to indicate if something is a noun (object in a sentence). Since here noun is 'teacher's surname' is subject, 是 won't be used here.

[carolinece8]

Couldn't I say 老师姓吗?

[deactivated user]

They don't have the 'called'?!

[AndreasWal165680]

You don't need it.

[AliAlMuntazar]

Why 老师的姓什么 is not true :(

[AndreasWal165680]

It's grammatically incorrect.

[ph.QfEPg3]

I am Confused

[ph.gs9ZAi]

My correct answer is wrong here .why?

[hhuman_being]

How do you say what is the teacher's full name?

[Chikin_Nugget]

It didn't tell me the grammer

[JoeHardy022580]

Why is the character that signifies the ownership of the teacher's last name not present？的