"老师要热茶。"

Translation: The teacher wants hot tea.

[Rumactree]

I understood Yao to mean need or want. I chose to say the teacher needs hot tea for this sentence, knowing I could just say wants depending on context. Not accepted, so I reported it .... but if i’ve not got it right I’d like to know?

[VinnyBunby]

I think it's technically a correct translation, but to say someone "needs" something suggests an urgency. And it's not so common that someone urgently needs hot tea. Someone wanting hot tea is far more common.

[YiiMeng]

需要 (xu yao) is need, 要 (yao) is want.

[mikathinks]

Want vs wants . taking away my hearts like it is a joke

[lugiahello]

❤❤❤. Is this a chinese thing or what.. Want vs wants? Seriously?

[GryTea]

In English, it has to be "The teacher wants hot tea." ("The teacher want hot tea." is grammatically incorrect); in Chinese, whether it's 我要茶, 你要茶, 他要茶, 她要茶, 它要茶, 老师要茶, or so on, 要 is still 要.

[Lujyss]

Why is not writing in pinyin anymore? Or is just my cellphone?

[Brandon95625]

Marked me wrong for saying "re" is warm, while on a previous question it was marked correct in saying "warm water"

[Jay_S13]

老师 laoshi
要 yao
热 re
茶 cha