"他们不是医生。"
Translation:They are not doctors.
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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.
I also don't understand why we can't use 她们 instead of 他们, it sounds the same!
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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?
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對别人好, both of you.
There's a lot of content for the Duo team to manage! Don't get discouraged if course improvement takes them some time -- just continue to report alternate translations, upvote and give lingots on important comments, and the course will improve in time. The DL team is definitely responsive; I have had a number of suggestions eventually accepted. Be patient :)
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.
+1 Please make 'Tap what you hear' questions with 'ta' accept either he or she since pronunciation is the same
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!
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.
That sentence sort of worries me; why am I saying this? Did I just realize is, sitting in the doctor's office? Is he standing before me and has he announced, "Me and my partner are not doctors." and you sor of just murmur to yourself, or maybe tell 911, "THEY ARE NOT DOCTORS! CAN ANYONE HEAR ME? THEY ARE NOT DOCTORS!!!!!" realistically, when will this ever be useful in real life.
In case someone were to ask someone's job. For example, someone might ask about your friend/family member, "Hey, are they doctors?" and you would respond if they are or not.
Hahahaha I thought something like that too. You sittin in a plane, someone's having a serious health problem, and some smart looking people with white gown in a doctor like fashion come up and save the day... and you realise, "但是。。。他们不是医生。。!!"
Yeah. Imagine your doctor coming in after your open heart surgery saying "Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I'm not really a doctor! Bwa ha ha haaaaaaa!"
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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!!
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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?
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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?
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她们 is as valid as 他们。Modify the answers if you want a dofferent translation.
This should be corrected. You can't tell from the spoken sentence whether it's 他 or 她.
The English prompt did not distinguish gender. Tamen bu yisheng is also correct.
My Answer: They are not doctors's
You used the wrong word. They are not doctors.
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You wrote "doctors's" -- i.e., with the apostrophe and two "s"? This is incorrect English. You want to use the simple plural "doctors." In the case where you were using a possessive plural (i.e., this thing belongs to those two doctors) you would say "it is the doctors'" with the single apostrophe after the 's'.
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.
Pls also add/show/display pinyins along with the Chinese characters to make it more interesting
