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- "老师的家在香港。"
"老师的家在香港。"
Translation:The teacher's home is in Hong Kong.
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I was marked wrong for leaving out "the". However, I would argue 都可以, because students normally refer to their teachers as “老师/teacher".
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Agreed, and it's done (less frequently) in English as well. "Teacher" is perfectly valid as a title, and thus should not require the definite article. Not common, but not =wrong=. Report it.
Agreed - it's quite OK (but less common) so say "Teacher's house is..." etc.
Why is duolingo always suggesting the correct words? Basically most exercises are equivalent to "build an english sentence out of the following suggested words". Almost impossible to get it wrong even if i didn't understand any of the chinese. Why not let us translate by ourselves?
Teacher's is possessive, while teachers is simply the plural form of teacher. Since this uses "de", its meant to show possession.
If Duo didn't require the correct use of the apostrophe here, students might "learn" that "老师的" = plural "teachers". With a little effort we might get better at BOTH languages. Thanks Duo, for teaching us well!
@Laoshi - Then by all means translate the Chinese sentence as "The White House has a peacock" and expect full marks to enable your rapid Chinese learning.
Thanks for the sarcasm: I wrote that over a year ago, and am aware that I was not correct. I thought the point of this was to help each other, not to be nasty.
My sincere apologies. I did not notice the date on the message. I can assure you that I'm not being nasty. Apologies if you felt so. :-(
The teacher only has one home in Hong Kong, and it doesn't own anything, so no need for the "s" or "'s"
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I believe that 'home's' in the above sentence is not being used as a possessive but as a contraction of 'home is' which is acceptable English though perhaps too casual for Duo.
Teacher's home is in Hong Kong. (Dropping the "the" has the same meaning and is more casual English
Not all English speakers drop the article when speaking. Duo requires the international forms of languages, otherwise it's to difficult to target slang or dialects.
this sentence has problems...i translated exactly but the system gives me an error...then shows the correct translation that is exactly what i translated...
I wrote it correctly but it was marked as wrong. This happened before on the same sentence.
I also translated exactly as duolingo has displayed repeatedly, but this time it is marked wrong. Huh???
Why is "the teacher's home is Hong Kong" not correct? where does "in" come from?
Let's not waste time being sympathetic about the machine when we need to learn so many new things about so many new languages.
Won't happen merely by cursing computers. Needs focus and dedication from our own self.
When duolingo ( did I spell that right ) says I'm missing the "in" in it I mean that is totally wrong it can not have an in and it can also have an in The correct answer is " The teacher's home is in Beiging." ( I did not spell that right.) It should be able to be The teacher's home is Beiging. Just like I could say, My home is Midland,MI. So this is a big mistake people.
I agree with you 100%.. and lots of others who visit the US as tourists also know this fact when they visit the White Home in Washington D.C. ;-)
This question is quite easy!
老師(师):Teacher(The Teacher) 的:'s 家:home 在: is in 香港: Hong Kong
Because the character 家 refers to a house or a home, and needs the character 人 added to it in order to refer specifically to the people who live there.
The teacher's house is in hong kong. The only ligitimate reason duolingo could say this is wrong is beacause there are no houses in hong kong
I wrote "Teacher's home is in Hong Kong" and got it wrong because I forgot the "The" at the start of the sentence.
How come "Teacher's home is in Hong Kong" is incorrect? are we supposed to assume that "teacher" is not being used in place of the teacher's name, or is there something would make the "the" necessary?
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Why the need for the article "the"?
"Teacher's home is in Hong Kong" is also gramatically correct in english. And there is no "article THE" in the chinese language, is there?
Consistency. Missing the apostrophy, incorrect. Not inserting an explamation mark on a question sentence does not give an incorrect result!
I endered "The teacher his house is in Hong Kong" which should also be acceptable right? Since teacher's is just an abbreviation for 'teacher his'
No bro, His is a possessive adjetive, that includes the subject in it, so if you'd say, the teacher his house, you would be duplicating the subject, and you cannot do it, at least not in English.
That might be one way for an English learner to remember it but that's not what the possessive " 's " means - it is not a contraction of two words. It means that what follows, "belongs" to the person/thing with the " 's " (or sometimes " s' " when the noun already ends with an "s".
