"他们不是医生。"

Translation:They are not doctors.

November 24, 2017

62 Comments
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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/dkratzm.b

Why not "她们不是医生。" ? The masculine 他 and the feminine 她 are pronounced the same, so either answer should be accepted.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/PaolaOruna

I also don't understand why we can't use 她们 instead of 他们, it sounds the same!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/George792719

As usual, I find posts like this that were submitted 6 months ago. Yet nothing changes. Have they abandoned this course?

In other circles, the fact you can't use 她 们 would be seen as sexist. Can't women be doctors? It's probably not the case here here, but why the hell don't they fix things?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/bytemuse

+1 Please make 'Tap what you hear' questions with 'ta' accept either he or she since pronunciation is the same


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/lleteff

If you see a group of females you will use 她们. If the group is either male or mixed you use 他们. From what I understand anyways it's just a mistake. It's mostly just so you avoid creating a habit of making basic level mistakes.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Stefan-boer

她们 is female only group. When in doubt or not specified or a group of men always use 他们.

Content is good. Nothing wrong with it. Just sometimes not clear since not everyone knows chinese grammar rules.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/marteeen

I was very confused too at getting this one wrong, but I'm glad to have learned this bit of grammar from the comments. Thanks!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/uzHe15

I have the same problem with this one


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Tack666

Yah me did that too


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Nina10682

Thanks for this, i was wondering what the difference was


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sawyer5671

I recommend writing 'Student', 'Doctor', and 'Teacher' down on a piece of paper, it really helps with Occupation 3 I find. Here, this will help you write it down: Doctor: 医生 Student: 学生 Teacher:老师 Hope this helped!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Alex1_0_1

No need to be patronizing. Anyway, that has nothing to do with the first comment about this translation. Why is 她们wrong? That's the issue.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sue950221

I used "她门不是医生" and was corrected to the translation above. WOMEN can also be DOCTORS, too. I am one for example!!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/josephvitti

Totally! I think you mean 她们 though :)


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Andreas48251

This should be corrected. You can't tell from the spoken sentence whether it's 他 or 她.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/T.Lawal

Please change this this answer to except 她们不是医生,its impossible to tell the difference from speech so, the question should except the female pronoun character.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/KirbywNoKrust

Is Duolingo aware that women doctors exist?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/josephvitti

Hopefully they'll update the acceptable answers soon :)


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Gerald56518

I believe this one is wrong . I marked female as it was the first option I saw. But both should be ok .


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/lingfren

他们不是医生 or 她们不是医生


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/NotCutskdj

Ta men doesnt make sense here, it should accept feminine and masculine, they sound the same. Fix this plz


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/josephvitti

Would it be incorrect to say "they are not THE doctors"? (If, for example, we knew that there were doctors in a group of people, and were trying to figure out if these folks or those ones were the doctors.) I don't believe Chinese has a definite article (?), so how would the sentence change in this context?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/josephvitti

I was also marked incorrect (on the second time, this time Eng->Zh) for "她们不是医生。" How does the sentence change if "they" are all women?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Briter_xy

He (他), She (她), Da Heck?!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/jnovizki

"They" could be Women


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SnowValley

Thought they both pronounced the same


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/mango_ducky

What's the difference between ta men with the female article (她 们) and ta men with the male article (他们)?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AHSq17

Does 她 has different pronounciation with 他?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/RonDeCastr

Why bu and shi, though they mean NOT, can we just take either of it?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Carter741846

Bu is not, shi is a 'to be' verb


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ThomasBuck18

The English prompt did not distinguish gender. Tamen bu yisheng is also correct.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/StephanF.1

I was wrong just because of the dot. There is no dot to add at the end of the sentence!

You used the wrong word. They are not doctors.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Kellina9

她们 is as valid as 他们。Modify the answers if you want a dofferent translation.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/K6D72

The masucline and femenine 他/她 are pronounced the same.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Alex1_0_1

Children, play nice.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Juanma305185

My answer was correct


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/GULZEBRAJPUT

Pls also add/show/display pinyins along with the Chinese characters to make it more interesting


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AlbertAnglada

Both masc and fem sound the same. Both are correct


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Kata772494

他 and 她 are pronounced the same, so why it is wrong if i use 她。 I see that people have complained about this a long time ago, but there still isn't any changes?!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sara362891

Same comment as above..


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/GlynnisCla

female doctors! me too!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Marshall709209

You can't know if the sentence is he or she from the voice only. Needs to be changed!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Rhodes587164

What the heck? They sound the same!


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    Should accept both male and female answers.


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/566.RXV3698yiIF/

    Even I'm a man i still think this is sexist. What's wrong with female being doctors?


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Tack666

    I did 她们不是医生 and i got wrong. The speaker said the same thing as what i did, but HOW SHOULD I KNOW THAT IS WAS THE GUY?!?!?!


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Tack666

    They sound the same!!! 她和他 their ping ying is even the same except the tones [i think]


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/taiyodias

    same sound for feminine and masculine , should accept both answers as usual .


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/KennethSet

    Why couldn't it be a group of female doctors? Sexist.


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Lily529400

    smh how are we supposed to know if it's female or male


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Kaia764939

    Well the only thing I'm confused is the 他们是 because it's just the same as the other one


    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Kaia764939

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