"你应该去看医生。"
Translation:You should go to the doctor.
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Or "go and see". Why don't they want us to use see? It's in the Chinese, and it's common English usage.
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看 can sometimes be used to mean 'to visit' or 'to consult':
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看朋友 - visit (call on) a friend (from HanYing Da Cidian)
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他出去看朋友了 - he went out to visit with his pals (from The New Oxford En-Ch Dictionary)
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看医生 - see a doctor; consult a doctor (from the NCIKU Ch-En dictionary)
While this translation works in real life, if you want to be really specific then the 去 (go) should be added as well.
It all depends on the context. If someone is sick, you can tell them to go see a doctor or go see the doctor. Depends on the situation...
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I feel confused why ".. go see..." can be used in English. "..go to see.." is much better.
Americans go see things, British go and see or go to see things.
'...go see...' is American, '...go to see...' or '...go and see...' is English.
I also think that way..
in english, if the verb meets a verb then we must add "to".
It depends on the country. We say "go see" in the American Midwest. Saying "go to see" would mark you as someone not from here.
It's subtle. If it's a serial verb construction—you go and then you see—it's “go and see”. If the going is the strict precondition to the seeing, if you go in order to see, then it's “go to see”. If you're American, you seemingly don't draw the distinction, and it's “go see”.
"看医生“ is not the proper phrase. “看病” should be used instead. I learned this from a native speaker, so for accuracy sake, this should be changed.
No, "看病" is a verb meaning either "to see a patient" or "to see a doctor"
The literal translation, “You should go and see a doctor” is also thoroughly idiomatic, yet it is rejected. What gives?
You don't say go to the doctor's? Doctor is a person, not a place; 's should be used, shouldn't it?
Why is "You need to go to the doctor" wrong? Should and need to is the same right?
They're not exactly the same thing in English, but it's complicated because both “should” and “need to” are used differently in different places. Usually “need to” means there will be bad negative consequences (death, arrest, failing a course) if you don't, while “should” suggests a moral argument (though you may be seen to have a moral obligation to stay healthy). In some places people prefer using “need to”, perhaps because they want to avoid criticising you. In others, people prefer using “should” because they want to avoid ordering you about. In any case, I think here Duolingo prefers “should” on purpose, because it's the closer of the two choices. We'd need someone who actually speaks Chinese to confirm if that's the reason….
