"Bob is a doctor."
Translation:بوب دُكتور.
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In my understanding, دكتور is more like a title (e.g., also for scientific doctors) and طبيب is a medical doctor.
Yeah. My family will say that we're going to the طبيب, but adress the doctor as دكتور. Some countries might have other ways of using the words though, like I saw else someone say.
"Tabeeb" means medical doctor (a.k.a. physician), while "Doktoor" is for doctors in general, either a medical doctor or one holding a PhD.
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The Semitic languages (among others) don't use an explicit copula ("is" here) in the present tense (and even in other tenses tend to co-opt another verb), nor do they have an explicit indefinite article ("a"/"an").
My beginner understanding is that SMA works similarly to Israeli Hebrew הוא in some nominal sentences called "equative" (in which both subject and predicate are definite): http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/sites/llf.cnrs.fr/files/evenements/colloques/DG_copula.pdf However, there is often "zero copula" situations and actual dialects of Arabic seem to differ on this matter. Examples of zero copula: Matthew Aldrich, Arabic vs Arabic: A Dialect Sampler, p. 55.
To Ali. 11. 16. '20. This might be needed in one language, but not, in another.
Japanese has the same problem, where Duo thinks that sensei is the profession teacher in Japanese. They seem to like titles for the professions a lot more than the actual name for it.
بوب دكتور it means بوب هو يكون دكتور we can make question: من هو بوب ؟ بوب (هو) دكتور
دكتور في طبيب : أستاذ في طبيب : Doctor of Medicine (MD).
The دكتور must not be Arabic faSiHa but is a borrowed word from English. Whilst, طبيب it is Arabic.
better to use طبيب here because it is a job not a title.. and its easy to understand it .. like بوب أستاذ وزيد طبيب
Japanese has the same problem, where Duo thinks that sensei is the profession teacher in Japanese. They seem to like titles for the professions a lot morethan the actual name for it.
