Topic: Hungarian

"Hol van a nő reggel?"

Translation:Where is the woman in the morning?

July 1, 2016

16 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/HatoriDanzo

    I put: "Where is the woman this morning?" Can that not also be correct?

    July 1, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/hatcher

      "this morning" is "ma reggel"

      July 1, 2016
      https://www.duolingo.com/DillonReyn

        Why would it be "ma" reggel and not "ez"?

        Does "ez" signify "this particular morning"?

        July 2, 2016
        https://www.duolingo.com/david.altmayer

          In Hungarian, you say "ma reggel" (today morning) and "ma este" (today night) to mean "this morning" and "tonight".

          July 2, 2016
          https://www.duolingo.com/hatcher

            Don't overthink it. These are just idiomatic set phrases.

            July 2, 2016
            https://www.duolingo.com/Ampus_Questor

              Likewise in German. Actually, more logical than English because we cannot say 'that morning' to refer to some other morning as it would be so indeterminate without further explanation. .

              November 5, 2018
              https://www.duolingo.com/HatoriDanzo

                thanks! :D

                July 1, 2016
                https://www.duolingo.com/Ser229339

                  Remélem, hogy az ágyban...;-)

                  February 11, 2018
                  https://www.duolingo.com/Tom642395
                  • 77

                  De kinek az ágya?

                  February 6, 2019
                  https://www.duolingo.com/Harly5210

                    I read in another comment that there is no future tense in Hungarian, so could this also be "Where will the woman be in the morning?"?

                    July 13, 2016
                    https://www.duolingo.com/kkaalloo

                      two forms of future.. hol fog lenni a nő OR hol lesz a nó...

                      July 13, 2016
                      https://www.duolingo.com/jzsuzsi
                      • 256

                      Hol lesz a nő? is the better choice of the two. (We usually use "fog" with every other verb, but "lesz" as the future tense of van.)

                      May 19, 2018
                      https://www.duolingo.com/TimeaPaszt

                        This way it sounds like female morning in Hungarian. Missing "ma" which would make it this morning.

                        August 22, 2016
                        https://www.duolingo.com/farnoosh783

                          why we use two the s while there is only one "a"?

                          June 12, 2018
                          https://www.duolingo.com/bbigblue
                          Plus

                            Because translation does not happen word by word, it needs to accomodate language specific rules. So even though hungarian does not need "a" for the morning, english does use it. I am not native english speaker, but I do not think "in morning" would be valid here.

                            June 15, 2018
                            https://www.duolingo.com/AlexPhisique
                            • 56

                            nonsence

                            January 12, 2019
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