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- "李医生在医院。"
"李医生在医院。"
Translation:Doctor Li is at the hospital.
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李 can also be "Lee" right? It's my last name and it says it is incorrect.
I kept trying to input "Lee" and it wouldmark my answer as wrong because of it. "Lee" is acceptable in many of the other lower level exercises, it should be fixed.
As Aliona said 'in hospital' should be correct as well as 'in the hospital'. Its British English, and is what they teach in at least some of Europe meaning it is natural to a lot of people.
wouldn't "in hospital" (and even "in the hospital" usually) imply that the person is there as a patient, and not just simply present there? whereas I'm assuming they mean the doctor is there working, not as a patient. in the US at least, saying someone's in the hospital generally implies they're there as a patient, whereas an employee, visitor, etc. is "at the hospital." I think that's why there's some confusion here. this isn't a hard rule of course but typically how those phrases are used contextually
Yes, Li's looks wrong. When affixed to a proper noun it indicates possession 的
In that sentence "Li's" doesn't indicate possession. It's a contraction of "Li is".
does hanyu distinguish between "in the hospital" and "at the hospital?" xie xie
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正在 means "currently doing", like "我正在寫" (I am currently writing), you use 著 if you're doing something that is continuous, "我愛著你" (I am (continuously) loving you) if you want to say "I am currently at the hospital" you would have to put another 在 to show that you're there, ("我正在在醫院" (I am at/in the hospital right now)) otherwise if you say "I am hospital right now"
I guess you made a mistake separating the words here. 在 is used by itself to indicate location, or in this case "at". 生 is part of 医生 (doctor), not 生在 as you thought it was. Hope this helps.
Take a close look at the characters. 正在 + verb indicates the current, continuous action of the verb. 住在 + place means to live in that place.
It can be both, Li for countries where they only accept the hanyupinyin version and Lee for places like, say, Malaysia and Singapore.
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家 is a counter for some kinds of buildings like 个 is a counter for many things, it's not part of the word.
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Duolingo accepts it in every other question in the course I've encountered in the past several months.
"Doctor Li is at the hospital" is the default translation is here, but I used "at" for another question and it was rejected. Come on, Duolingo, at least be consistent and accept "at" for all of those similar questions...
Funny)))who decided that it should be THE hospital in English, but not simply hospital
Not if you use British English, and maybe the Englishes of the southern hemisphere.
Perhaps not. However "in hospital " is grammatically correct in British English. But there is an important difference between being "at the hospital " and "in hospital ". The former would apply to a person working in or visiting the hospital. The latter would refer to an in patient.
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I'm Australian and neither "at hospital" nor "in hospital"sounds quite right to me. Then again maybe the one with "in" is OK, sometimes it's hard to analyse your own language instinct...
The same people who decided to use simplified Chinese characters in this app...the majority! :P (In this case American English)
In American English, "at the hospital" means that a person is physically in the hospital building (working, visiting someone, etc). We do not use that to describe patients.
"In the hospital" means that the person has been admitted to the hospital as a patient.
