When I wrote "We meet the teacher at home" Duolingo underlined "the" as the incorrect portion of this text, when in fact it was "teacher", which should be plural.
For it to be 'the teacher' it would have to be Der Lehrer or Die Lehrerin, if die is used next to a word that is masculine, its always plural
I think that is because the "die" (vrs. "der") was supposed to be the indicator of the plural.
yeah, The sentence looked fishy being "die" and not "dem" which i think it would be.
Why does "We are meeting with the teachers at home" not work? Usually when you "meet" you write "meet with"?
Doesn't treffen require a reflexive pronoun? Wir treffen uns mit... Or is there a distinction between meet and have a meeting with? From the context, in this case it is having a meeting, not accidentally running into someone.
Someone said to me that "Hause" was an archaic form that should only be used after "nach", but it seems that is not the case.
Is "Hause" used whenever a dative is required?
"zu Hause" and "nach Hause" are both idiomatic expressions and belong to every-day language. You can also hear: "zu Haus" and "nach Haus" when the speaker wants to be short.
Otherwise the "e" in Datives is almost extinct, exept in poetic language. "Dem Manne kann geholfen werden" is correct, but it sounds like part of a poem, in every day language you would say "Dem Mann".
Same with Haus. "Überm Hause, da fliegen die Wolken etc." - nice poetic stuff. But the every-day-language version is: "Guck mal! Über dem Haus fliegt ein Hubschrauber!" (Look! There is a helicopter above the house!)
I think "zu Hause" also is an archaic form, I haven't seen 'Hause' in any other settings.
Doesn't treffen also mean to hit? So we are hitting the teachers at home is wrong ? Just another dotty Duo sentence !
I offered a translation of "we meet the teachers at the house." I was cautioned that "die Lehrer" is plural of "der Lehrer", thanks, and then it returned "we are meeting the teachers at home" underlining "meeting the." So, is it the fact I wrote "at the house" vs "at home"?