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Context: there are two professor that are talking to each other; one is a long
career professor while the other is a novice professor. This one lack of
dignity, seriousness.

The long career professor say to the novice professor:

> "私は」いつまでたっても教師の貫禄が出ないあなたに戸惑っています。"

Now, in this sentence I can not figure out the meaning of "貫禄が出ない". Maybe it
is similar to "貫禄がない"?

May be the translation something like "Is your incorrigible lack of dignity as
teacher that leave me perplexed (about you)."?

EDIT: Or "No matter how much time passes, (your) dignity as teacher will not
come out, so I have perplexities about you/your request" (note: see the
comment below).

Thk U in advance.
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grammar expressions
What is the meaning of "...が出ない " in this sentence?
出る ("come/go out") comes with many different (but closely-related) shades of
meaning (as does its English counterpart), and I think "develop" nicely
captures the sense of the word as used here.

貫禄 is something like a "dignified air" about a person. It's generally a good
thing to have, if having authority and commanding respect matter anything to
you, but often it's something that only comes with experience. (Excepting the
rare cases of naturals. They somehow exude the look and feel of many years of
experience and accomplishment from the very start. Damn those naturals.)

So anyway, 貫禄が出ない means "a dignified air does not develop" (or "someone does
not develop a dignified air"). 貫禄がない means "there is no dignified air (about a
person)" (or "someone have no dignified air about them"). They mean similar
things, yes. The speaker probably could have used 貫禄がない instead of 貫禄が出ない with
their point remaining intact.

With a bit of trimming and smoothing, the quote goes like this:

> I'm quite baffled that you, after all this time, still haven't shown any
> sign of developing that dignified presence and air of a teaching
> professional.
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