"Akkor már nem sétálok."
Translation:I am not walking then anymore.
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Good question, this is a weird one without any context. The way I understand it is "by the time something happens (referred to earlier) i'm not walking anymore". It can also mean resignation. - Már lekéstük a buszt (we've already missed the bus) - Akkor már nem futok. (I'm not running then.)
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Yeah -- that's what I put and was called wrong. At least that makes sense in English!
@hatcher's comment: " It can also mean resignation. - Már lekéstük a buszt (we've already missed the bus) - Akkor már nem futok. (I'm not running then.)"
Would this be an equivalent meaning of the "resignation" suggestion? I'm not running [then]=[in that case].
Does this sentence really mean: "first I was walking, then at some point I stopped walking"? And would "Akkor nem sétálok" without "már" mean "I am not walking then" in the sense that I wasn't even walking before?
The term akkor means "at that time". Akkor is from az, the definite article "the" and also the demonstrative "that", and the word kor, meaning "time, period, age", and used as a suffix to mean "time, point in time". See also the Wiktionary entries for akkor, kor as a noun, and -kor as a suffix.
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My answer: I am not walking any more then. was accepted, but my spelling was corrected to 'anymore' as one word. Here is what the Oxford dictionary says about 'any more' as opposed to 'anymore':
Definition of 'any more' adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
any more - Adverb (British English) (also anymore North American English, British English) Often used at the end of negative sentences and at the end of questions, to mean ‘any longer’, eg She doesn't live here any more. Why doesn't he speak to me any more? Now she won't have to go out to work any more.
I hope Duo accepts that American English is NOT universal English - real English is used around the globe - and that they stop correcting (as in corrupting) my English. My magyar nyelv may be basic, but my real English is better.
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That doesn't make sense in English. (That is the second straight translate from Hungarian into English that translated to something that didn't really make sense in English, IMHO)
Ok but why do you put an Hebrew word(?) at the beginning of each comment of yours? Sorry if my question sounds rude.
ב"ה It isn't a Hebrew word -- it's a religious abbreviation. I means "with the help of G-d"
Is 'már' only used in a sentence with 'nem'? I mean in a sentence, 'már' goes together with 'nem'? And together it means 'not anymore'?
No, már is not only used in negative sentences. Its basic meaning is similar to "already" and also "any more" at the same time -- it indicates a change in state that happened just a little bit ago. This could be a positive change, for which we use the term "already" in English:
- Már megyek. → I'm already going, I'm going already. (Before, I wasn't going, but now I am.)
... or a negative change, for which we use the phrase "any more":
- Már nem megyek. → I'm not going any more. (Before, I was going, or was going to go, but now I'm not.)
If you've ever studied Japanese, this usage of már is very close to the way the Japanese term もう (mō) works:
- もう行く (mō iku, "I'm going already")
- もう行かない (mō ikanai, "I'm not going any more")
Or if you've studied Spanish, it's very close to the Spanish term ya:
- Ya voy ("I'm going already")
- Ya no voy ("I'm not going any more")