They didn't seem to fill quite the same role as modern generals, as we usually saw them leading troops into battle directly rather than overseeing large strategic battle groups or delegating orders to subordinates, but even in the films, the Jedi were directly referred to as generals during the Clone Wars.

"General Kenobi!"

Even Ashoka had the rank of General. Underneath Anakin, obviously, but still, a General.

Giving a General rank to teenage Padawans probably should have been a sign .

All* jedi were made generals during the clone wars.

*Wording on the wookieepedia article makes it sound like not all of them and padawans were just commanders. But iirc all the jedi in the show were generals and at least for the sake of this comment Anakin was a general.

All the Jedi on the front lines were effectively in charge of the clone battalions.

Basically yes.

It isn't like he could say 'Master'.

Yep.

The Jedi were made generals of the grand army of the republic.

They were like a nobility class, like a British officer “buying” their commission.

Anakin and Obi Wan were two of the most well known Generals in the clone wars.

I think he might've in the clone wars, but I haven't watched much of the Clone Wars show tbh.

Pretty sure this was already explained in return of the Jedi.

Obi-wan says that when anakin became Vader, the anakin he knew and loved was dead.