"不要关门。"

Translation: Don't close the door.

[CharlesE780046]

3 months and don't shut the door is still not accepted? Is anyone actually looking at our submissions?

[Gabrielle145359]

Yes! In my experience, there's about a 6 month lag time.

[ChrisChinese20]

Doesn't his mean, 'I don't want you to close the door'??

[kongming819]

Why is "don't shut the door" not accepted?

[hippietrail]

Because this Chinese course was in beta until recently. We're expected to suggest the missing answers. The Duolingo team then goes through and checks all our suggestions and implements the ones they confirm. This takes a varying amount of time.

[e1VpVxkl]

"Don ’t SHUT the door". = Accepted: Nov. 24, 2019

[freeesome]

Doesn't 不要 also mean 'need not'? As in unnecessary? I would've been tempted to use 别 for a negative imperative...

[zhouhuanyue]

別 is used if the person saying it thinks no one has done it yet, 不要 is more like "stop" or "dont (do it)"

[Imnuts7]

'You don't need to close the door' is 不用关门。

[Eric492387]

"You don't need to close the door" should be correct. Reported November 4th 2018

[SantaRPG]

I always think this means "don't close" as in "don't close your store" as this is a shopping course, and 关门 means close in that context.

[Andrew-Lin]

There is little chance that you say "Don't close your store" in your daily conversation, but you are technically correct. "关门" can mean both "close the door"(literal) and "close for business"

[Hsn626796]

I was going to ask exactly the same thing !

[CucumberMan06]

Why is the 要 needed in this sentence?

[NathanRasm]

part of the word 不要 which means "don't"

[sushix2]

"do not close the door" doesn't work? it must be a contraction?

[AsirAjmal]

No. 不要 means "Don't"

[RegWong1]

In proper English, we SHUT doors and we don't "close" doors. I wrote "Don't shut the door" and got a failing grade. So I will have to slavishly accept "Don't close the door" if I want to proceed to the next module.

[Dave168907]

In proper English, "close" and "shut" are absolutely synonymous. Chill out.

[RajasDaithankar]

@RegWong - In proper English "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse" becomes "A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as the spasmodic movement of one optic to an equine quadruped utterly devoid of visionary capacity".. :-)