"Sör"
Translation:beer
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I thought it was so funny when my friend took me to a bar so I could have a ''soft drink'' - which was cherry pálinka and the exact opposite of what I was expecting as something ''soft''!
But what I would like to have here in the US is Unicum. It's not available at all here!
Then you (or somebody) may find useful that it is "szilvapálinka" in Hungarian :D Pronounce it like "Silva" in Spanish or Portughese (and "pálinka" in Hungarian ;) )
(This name always make me remember two great men: José Silva (inventor of a technique called mind control) and Ayrton Senna [da Silva]. May them rest in peace...)
Nowadays yes, but we are more proud of our wines. We have many wine regions that are thought to be "world famous" (at least all over the country) and some wines like Tokaji or Kékfrankos are traded as traditional Hungarian wines. Unfortunately our old wine grapes were destroyed by the great phylloxera or "wine pest" plague and some more resistent but less unique types were planted. But even Buda (the mountaineous side of our capital) had extended wineyards and they were completely destroyed by the plague and never planted again.
Strange, Hungarians don't really like Arany Ászok, it is not the best of our beers :) Dreher, Soproni, Borsodi, Kőbányai, Szalon, Borostyán all might be better.
I better like Kőbányai or Soproni. By the way, I'm Hungarian and the test is good despite it's a beta.
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Aw, there's no audio for this one yet even though there's a button to listen to it here in the discussion :(
The long version is ő (as in German schön)
All long vowel have acute accents, so the umlauted ones have acute accents as well - two of them :)
An acute accent is a line above a letter that is shaped like a /.
In Hungarian, it indicates that the vowel is long.
So á é í ó ú ő ű are the long versions of a e i o u ö ü.
(With á é the pronunciation is a bit different as well, it's not just longer.)
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Thanks both of you. So, only á and é have a bit different pronunciation in the long version? Thanks in advance. :)
Yes, all other vowels sound similar but longer. Á and É sounds a bit different.
Yes, phonetically they are different vowels. For instance the hard "A" in Hungarian is not the same "A" you hear in indo-european languages, those could more be described like a short hungarian "á"
Is it me, or does this level keep not indicating new words when you hover over it? I'm pretty sure it still should, so I don't know why this is the third word not indicated. It's pretty low priority, I know, but it gets me down everytime I have no clue of a word even though the grey colour of the word says I should.
If you are on an app, you would need to click on the word. Here on the computer I have no problem to hover over it and see the hint.
You mean "sör" comes from "The Shire"? Good news for the hobbitses! ;)
Bad choice of county. No non-English speaking person will know how to pronounce 'Gloucestershire' (Gloster) or 'Worcestershire' (Wooster) or 'Leicestershire' (Lester) or 'Warwickshire' (Warrick), plus several others: they are all wayward pronunciations. Just 'shire' by itself will do.
Wiktionary says it might be from the word sıra which means beer in several Turkic languages.
The Hungarian course does not use text-to-speech (TTS, "robot voice").
Instead, they recorded a real human being -- but only a limited number of sentences and not individual words. (And no "turtle speed", because that would mean twice the number of recordings they would have had to pay for.)
The first uses of "beer" in duolingo were "sört." Now it's suddenly "sör." I presume there's a declension involved, but it's frustrating that duolingo never teaches us grammar, so we've got many versions of the same word and never know which one to use.
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Does anyone else have the error in this example? It wants me to translate "sört" as "Please do not report that the audio is missing thanks".
You must have accidentally entered your translation or no translation. Listen here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%B6r
The audio does not work and the only option to report is that "the audio is incorrect" what can I do can I report it?
Duolingo uses words and phrases to teach as well as sentences. This could be an answer to a question: What would you like to drink?
