"I am standing at the hospital entrance."
Translation:びょういんの入り口でたっています。
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To be honest, this lesson's overall て に お は are very bad. We say びょういんの入り口「に」たっています。びょういんの入り口で「待っています」(I am waiting at the hospital entrance. As a Japanese I am horrified!
We havent learned the kanji you used yet, so for those unfamiliar, 待つ is "to wait".
So he's using で with the verb "to wait", and に with the the verb "to stand", but I'm too much of a noob to know why the particle would be different for either verb.
In my English head they are both "at" the place, so I would figure it is で in both cases... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm confused. I thought that "te" forms were used for commands. How come I can't say "Tachimasu"?
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The て-form can be used for commands, but it has many uses beyond that.
If you were to use 立つ／立ちます then you would effectively be saying "I stand at the hospital entrance" or "I will stand at the hospital entrance". Which is to say that it is either something that you do habitually or something that you are planning on doing. Either way, it does not indicate that you are doing it right now, as the English sentence does.
To indicate this in Japanese you conjugate the verb into its て-form and then add いる／います.
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When I wrote "iriguchi" with IME, the first suggestion was 入口, rather than 入り口. Is that wrong?
This question doesn't accept full hiragana even though it's right. Why does Duolingo do this?
Doesn't accept 玄関 for entrance - would that not be used in reference to a hospital?
静置 is not a normal word that people would use. It can't be used in this sentence. It kind of means "to put" or "let stand" so it isn't used for people.
You would use it for sentences like "set it aside for 20 minutes" or "leave to stand for 1 hour."
It is more of a technical word used for a process.
