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- "他们不是医生。"
"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?
+1 Please make 'Tap what you hear' questions with 'ta' accept either he or she since pronunciation is the same
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.
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.
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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!
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.
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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!!
This should be corrected. You can't tell from the spoken sentence whether it's 他 or 她.
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.
I believe this one is wrong . I marked female as it was the first option I saw. But both should be ok .
Ta men doesnt make sense here, it should accept feminine and masculine, they sound the same. Fix this plz
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?
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?
What's the difference between ta men with the female article (她 们) and ta men with the male article (他们)?
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
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?!
Rule of the stupid chinese language :)
If the group is a mixed group or unspecified, ALWAYS use the masculine form. Although not very fair to either gender, that is the official rule.
Even I'm a man i still think this is sexist. What's wrong with female being doctors?
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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?!?!?!
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They sound the same!!! 她和他 their ping ying is even the same except the tones [i think]
- 她们, 她們 -- tāmen
- they, them (for females)
http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/search/s/%E5%A5%B9%E4%BB%AC
- 他们, 他們 -- tāmen
- they
http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/search/s/%E4%BB%96%E4%BB%AC
