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- "Te egy ügyvédet festesz?"
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891
In the Danish course there is an odd love story about a bear and a girl going on through the entire course, it seems. It's quite fun to follow. :D
In general this is true. However in this specific case the light is an oncoming train - the sentences get weirder as you go along, and I believe that the tree is so poorly constructed that rather than graduating it out of beta, it's being rewritten from the ground up in the background: https://incubator.duolingo.com/courses/hu/en/status
So you might have to wait a while for things to make sense.
891
I think you can express that with saying that you're painting onto the lawyer: Egy ügyvédre festesz?
891
I think I screwed up there a little. Did some research and using -ra/-re as the suffix ('onto') makes more sense.
You could say it like that, I think, maybe with a bit better melody as "Ügyvédre egy orvost festesz?"
891
Sorry, I think I messed up a little. I still have much to learn. It seems better to use -re as the suffix instead of -en, because the paint is applied onto the lawyer. (Have edited my previous comment accordingly.) However, you can say "Az ügyvéden festék van" - There is paint on the lawyer.
891
That would work, too, since the pronoun being written out indicates a focus on you doing it. But asking the actual honest question ("Are you painting?") is a lot more common.
891
In Hungarian questions you generally make a special intonation on the penultimate syllable of the sentence. (In shorter sentences it can also be on the last syllable.) It's a bit hard to discern if that is a syllable which is stressed anyway, like here, but you'll notice that the festesz is pronounced with a bit higher voice than the rest of the sentence. Listen closely to the sentences in the course and you'll eventually be able to distinguish questions from statements.