"Ein eigener Fachbereich ist nur für Ärzte offen."

Translation: Its own division is open just for doctors.

[DamienPatton]

I wish they'd just remove this sentence completely.

[wataya]

Agreed. I put it on my TODO list. Unfortunately, we can't change the source sentences at the moment. As soon as we can, this thing will go to linguistic Valhalla.

[DrWho100]

Still waiting, 23.9.2014 ; )

[AdrianJosh]

why is this sentence wrong?

[wataya]

Please read the other comments.

[0liwia]

Still not possible to remove it?

[BJH80]

Unfortunately this abomination still skulks around...

[wataya]

Yes. Annoying it is. (2014-11-05)

[DTipps]

How does "ein" translate to "its"?

[RichardCar815468]

Come on, the complaints here go back to before 2014 - please remove it already!

[ddddan]

I tried this but it failed: "Only doctors have their own faculty." Would this be a valid translation or no?

[Sue987642]

It appears to be still around in May 2021

[CaveatEmptor]

"Having one's own faculty is an option only available to doctors." Even in that case, however, I think the word "faculty" should be changed to "staff."

This is an awkward sentence to translate in a strict sense.

[elroon]

November 21 and the sentence is still here. Reading comments about its removal from 2014 is quite ridiculous.

[Catherine180222]

And still here at the start of 2022!

[Soglio]

I don't understand this sentence. Might "A special division . . . " or "A dedicated compartment . . . " (dedicated = reserved for a special purpose) work as a translation?

[wataya]

The German sentence is grammatically correct but I have no idea in which context it would be used. 'Fachbereich' is either a faculty at a university (university department) or a specialist field of knowledge. Here, it probably means the former, so I guess there is a university department at which only doctors work and study.

[Soglio]

Thanks. So, what is the antecedent for "its"? Whose "own"? The university, in this case, or is something else going on here?

[wataya]

No idea. 'There is a special department that's open only for doctors' would probably be a better (although not very elegant) translation. I wouldn't bother digging for answers to deep philosophical questions, here. Sometimes duo just presents weird sentences and enjoys our puzzled faces.

[Soglio]

Thanks. Whew, that's a relief. I thought I'd just stumbled into a whole new complexity of grammar. What a relief that it's only a philosophical question! ;-)

[JoshuaRoot]

I thought it could be referring to a medical speciality, and thus that the sentence meant that only doctors are able to choose a speciality. But according to the dictionary that would be a Fachrichtung. So yeah, just a weird sentence.

[jpkugel]

Thanks. BTW found 3 few places in the www where this sentence exists and perhaps the source; this source also has audio quiz cards: http://quizlet.com/40202972/german-education-flash-cards/

[xenophile]

Why is "open to doctors" incorrect? It sounds better idiomatically.

[TimFuller]

I agree. It's what I have unsuccessfully offered three times now. I guess I'm stubborn, but now that I know better, the next time I go to Germany, I'm going to try to work this sentence into every conversation I have!

[ScottSantoro]

I wrote 'An individual practice is only open for doctors' which sounds stupid in English -- then I saw that the accepted answer was "A (not AN) individual practice is only open for doctors' which is actually worse!

[wataya]

Agreed. This whole thing belongs to the garbage. (Where I have put it, but somehow the system keeps showing it. Since the sentence is no longer in the database in the Incubator, I can't make any corrections either)

[Rachel513378]

should fachbereich more readily translate as 'faculty'?

[Sue987642]

It makes no sense in the real world

[GilesHawki]

gibberish

[GilesHawki]

gibberish

[Rita948383]

Should we ever bother flogging this?

[KertAdams]

Why do I even need this sentence as a beginner who wants to learn German? Its here, and its already 2022!