"There are clocks above the trains."

Translation: A vonatok fölött órák vannak.

[BryanZFC]

Is "Órák vannak a vonatok fölött" wrong? I thought the word order was flexible, but it wasn't accepted.

[negyvenketto]

it's fine, you should report it.

[BryanZFC]

Ok, thanks for the fast reply :)!

[VojaJ.]

What about "Az órák a vonatok felett vannak"? The system didn't accept it.

[AndyDuoHungarian]

No, because "Az órák" means "THE clocks". In the original English sentence, "clocks" was indefinite, so you can't use the Hungarian article with it.

[Sayree3]

Why doesn't this mean "the trains are above the clocks" (other than the fact that that's nonsensical)? How do you know which is the subject and which is the object?

[Tim278579]

"fölött" is a postposition, meaning that it modifies the word(s) preceding it. Thus "A vonatok fölött" means "above the trains".

[LilleeClar]

Helpful!