"Hol van a nő reggel?"

Translation: Where is the woman in the morning?

[HatoriDanzo]

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

[hatcher]

"this morning" is "ma reggel"

[DillonReyn]

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

Does "ez" signify "this particular morning"?

[david.altmayer]

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

[hatcher]

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

[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.
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[HatoriDanzo]

thanks! :D

[Ser229339]

Remélem, hogy az ágyban...;-)

[Tom642395]

De kinek az ágya?

[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?"?

[kalo245927]

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

[jzsuzsi]

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.)

[MrtonPolgr]

There is indeed a future tense in Hungarian, I wonder how these myths spread. It's like saying English has no future tense since present tenses can refer to future events under certain circumstances.

[TimeaPaszt]

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

[farnoosh783]

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

[bbigblue]

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.