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"Father and mother, good night!"
Translation:爸爸妈妈，晚安！
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Would you not use "and" here, or does one omit it in certain situations?
The answer
爸爸和媽媽，晚安！
is correct, but currently not accepted. Reported.
Yes it's usually omitted in this situation, just as it can be in english: "mother, father, goodnight" or it can be "mother goodnight, father goodnight" (妈妈 晚安，爸爸 晚安) but you rarely hear "mother and father goodnight" (妈妈 和 爸爸，晚安)
Father and mother sounds like 父母 to me. I would have gotten it right if the English sentence had said dad and mom.
i wrote 爸爸也妈妈,晚安 and it was marked as wrong, despite being their example sentence the other way round literally three exercises earlier
Usually, I see 和 as and, 也 as also (I don't disagree with you, just providing a perspective)
Duolingo has "爸爸和妈妈要热水". It doesn't have "爸爸也妈妈".
"和" joins similar words in conjunction, e.g. two nouns or pronouns, or two adjectives. (It can join two verbs in certain circumstances, but the rules are a little complicated, and this is a more advanced grammar point.)
"也" modifies clauses. This isn't always straightforward. For example, Duolingo has the sentence "我很高，也很漂亮", but we can think of this as two clauses with the second subject implied.
Skj17 has the right idea with "和" being like "and" and "也" being like "also", though the usage of "and" is broader than that of "和", and "也" can often be translated to "and also".
Mine was exactly as the translation shows, just without the exclamation mark -_-
