"Il est professeur."
Translation:He is a professor.
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That is what it has taught me up until now but suddenly answering the question here it said I was wrong. Annoying.
A bit unrelated, but Swedish does the same thing. He is a professor is Han är professor.
Truth is both sentences can be used in French : - "Je suis professeur" : where "professeur" is used as an adjective, a qualifier. This is the common way to specify your job, your nationality : "je suis français"; - "Je suis un professeur" : where "professeur" is used as a defining criteria of "Je". This is the common way to read a definition in the dictionary : "Le lion est un animal" or possibly introduce oneself "Qui suis-je ? Je suis un professeur."; - "Je suis un professeur [...]" : where "professeur" is part of a greater group or is to be additionally qualified, etc. If context is given we would have examples like : "Je suis un professeur parmi d'autres", "Je suis un professeur à l'université de Lille", "Je suis un professeur en formation", etc. I hope it helps!
The pronunciation of professor in bad, he says "Profisseur" instead of "professeur"
What is the difference in French between professor and teacher? The same word for both professions?
Yes, and it is rather annoying when you see translations from French to English, and they call primary school teachers for professors :)
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No, there's a slight difference :
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professor -> professeur
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teacher -> enseignant (the one who teaches / celui qui enseigne)
Have a look at this page to see the others words Ernst was speaking about in primary school : https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/teacher (instituteur / maître)
Jfc i spelt professeur as professuer for some reason it counted it wrong- simple mistake like
Is spelling "professor" as "proffessor" really that bad to not be called a typo
Il est un professeur then it should be he is a professor but when there's no"un" Why do we use a?
Yes, but Duo is not ! En français, on dit "Professeur" et non pas "Profisseur".
Il est professeur - he is a professor / teacher. I am wrong with both answers. Glitch in the course.
If you spell professor wrong, it automatically says its wrong. It should be accepted.
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It makes sense that when you spell something incorrectly your answer is marked as being wrong. It's the quickest way to learn how to spell something correctly.
In French (and Spanish) the definite article (the a) isn't used. In English, we say he is a professor but in French, we say il est professeur.
However if someone were to ask you Who is that man? and you were to answer He is THE professor you'd translate that that as Il est LE professor.
I type in "He is a professor" - get it wrong twice. I type in "It is the professor" - wrong. Fourth try: "He is a professor" - Correct.
One day I'm going to end up throwing my phone through a wall because of this damn app. X{
It literally says, "He is professor." Wouldn't it say, "Il est un professeur" if the answer was, "He is a professor"?
why again do we not say, " Il est UN professeur"? This was marked wrong for me
Est means is . Un means a. How could it write as "he is a professor" .it should be like "he is professor"
The question said "il est professeur" not "il est un professeur" so i don't see how it should be he is "a" professor/teacher and not he is professor/teacher because that's what you guys wrote. I believe that was a bit confusing
One letter misspelked one s instead of 2 super frustrating that sometime its accepted and sometime is not
Why was my answer marked wrong when i wrote "He is professor" ? ( I wrote this anwer because there was no un/une in the sentence.
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why not "He is professor"? The next question was translate to French: "He is professor in France"...
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teacher and prefessor are synonims in English, sorry if that does not sound polite, but that is pretty stupid answer from duolingo
Il est means 'He is'..shouldn't the answer be He is professor..why does it 'a' is missing when there is no 'un' in the question
An article "a" in sentence "He is a teacher", doesn't it require an article "un" in sentence "Il est professeur"?
The answer is "He is a teacher." However, in that case, the question should be "Il est un professeur." no? Otherwise, due the lack of an article, the answer should be "He is professor", which is not correct due to the lack of article 'a' but accurate translation wise.