"老师的家在香港。"
Translation:The teacher's home is in Hong Kong.
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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?
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.
Teacher's is possessive, while teachers is simply the plural form of teacher. Since this uses "de", its meant to show possession.
maybe because "teachers" sounds more like plural. But, its just some hekin typo btw
A typo is only allowed if it does not make a different word and that includes changing something to plural as a plural noun would require a different verb conjugation in English.
Duolingo confuses the contraction of the verb "is" with a noun with the possessive form of the noun, so write out "is" as you were only saving one space with the contraction anyway.
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. ;-)
Why add another verb when "The teacher's home is in Hong Kong." is the correct answer. There may be another verb to say "is located".
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This question is quite easy!
老師(师):Teacher(The Teacher) 的:'s 家:home 在: is in 香港: Hong Kong
I wrote it correctly but it was marked as wrong. This happened before on the same sentence.
I have the same problem. I have scanned the Chinese characters over and over ...
Why is "the teacher's home is Hong Kong" not correct? where does "in" come from?
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Well it's probably nonsense but why can't we just translate it to english like "she lives in Hong Kong" instead of mentioning her home?
Because the given sentence is about the teacher's home. Not about the teacher.
"His car has Hong Kong number plates" also means the same thing as "He lives in Hong Kong" or "He is a citizen of Hong Kong" or "He is seen daily at that famous Hong Kong club"... All might convey a similar sentiment (that the person lives in Hong Kong). But ultimately, the subject of every sentence is different.
I put Kong Hong instead of Hong Kong, and Duolingo said it was correct and didnt correct me for some reason. Its odd what Duolingo says is acceptable in mistakes and what isn't.