"You are a student, you cannot sleep."

Translation: Tu es un élève, tu ne peux pas dormir.

[Unreadable]

It says that "Vous êtes un élève, tu ne peux pas dormir" is a correct translation, too. This sounds beyond odd and is completely unnatural to me. I mean I am not a native French speaker, but I am a native speaker of a language where formal/polite and familiar "you" are different, and it strikes me as being very, very odd.

[tyl0r789]

Not just odd. In my native language (German) it never would be correct to switch from formal to informal mid-sentence. That just doesn't work.

[labrini_k]

and I thought I was the only one finding this answer "odd"!!!

[Unreadable]

I'm being polite with "odd", actually. :)

[abelishka]

Yes, I think it's incorrect. I reported it too.

[Shanigans]

It is wrong. You can't mix the two forms in the one sentence. I have reported it and hope you did too.

[shazzamatazz]

You can't switch between you (formal) and you (informal) in the same sentence, but you can switch between you (singular) and you (plural).

[HertaSchneider]

That is because they use google translate and don't know the difference!

[maverickpl]

Is "un" required here? It doesn't work like a profession?

[Wolvesbane]

In another exercise, the article is excluded, as for professions... Can a native speaker inform us which is preferred here (and why)?

[just.so]

I thought it worked like a profession too. Oh well.

[Linda4406]

And guess what? If you use "étudiant," leaving out the "un" is marked correct. (Tu es étudiant.)

[Lele3c]

Wondering the same...

[SuperVanessa64]

Que c'est vrai ...

[Wandini]

I need to learn when to put de or a before a verb infinitive. Any ideas which lesson gives that?

[adrienne58]

This has not been corrected yet!

[TurianSniper]

I thought you didn't need an article with profession-like words?

[MinhTranDo]

What is the difference between élève and étudiant? While étudiant doesn't need the 'un' when talking about profession, élève does!

[jekesq]

I don't get it - in the familiar form, it uses "pas"; I answered this using "vous" and I used "pas" and it was marked incorrect. Can someone explain that - it's way beyond me and I used to be a french major

[mrquanta]

from the viewpoint of constructing the sentence, nothing changes.

tu ne peux pas dormir

vous ne pouvez pas dormir.

that was a mistake obviously.

[kitsunedomino]

Ain't that the truth

[ozzychris]

same observation as 'jekesq' - I used the polite vous-vous form and included a 2nd 'pas' but was told it wasn't warranted - why is that? Any thoughts?

[ozzychris]

I meant a 'pas' - not a 2nd 'pas'

[saunarie]

What is Duo trying to teach us here with this inconsistency? Either stick with informal or formal or give us an explanation.

[Shanigans]

You can't change from "vous" to "tu" in the same sentence. You could use vous or tu but not a mixture of both. I have just reported this again and assume someone else has already reported it.

[HertaSchneider]

"Tu est un étudiant, tu ne peux pas dormir." is even more correct.