"Rich people are eating in restaurants."

Translation: Az éttermekben gazdag emberek esznek.

[Harry_the_Hyrax]

Is it wrong to say, "Az éttermekben esznek gazdag emberek,"?

[clairelanc3]

Does not "az étteremekben" mean " in THE restaurants"?

[as2907]

There is no article in the English sentence.

[hatcher]

The indefinite article is under-, the definite article is overused in Hungarian compared to English.

[as2907]

On mature reflection, I agree, it would sound unnatural without.

[Arcaeca]

Does "Gazdag emberek étteremekben esznek" work?

[as2907]

I think it does, but to me this feels more like "rich people eat in restaurants" (as opposed to, for instance, poor people eat at home), which, I think, is a more proper English sentence than the one proposed as translation here. The focus is on "rich people". I would translate the original Hungarian sentence (that is, with that word order) as "in (the) restaurants rich people are eating/eat" or even "in (the) restaurants there are rich people eating". The focus is on "in (the) restaurants".
By the way, it's "éttermekben".

[clairelanc3]

Translated into English that would be " rich people are eating in THE restaurants". Why couldn' t we have " THE rich people are eating in restaurants " sice apparently you want an article somewhere?

[JereArmen]

Aarrrgh! If I include the definite article on some sentences, it gets marked wrong; if I leave it out, it gets marked wrong. I see that someone has said that the indefinite article is underused and the definite article is overused in Hungarian. And my language sense was prodding me to include 'az," but I didn't listen.
Arrgghh!

[jzsuzsi]

This is a confusing sentence.

Now I changed the English sentence to "Rich people eat in the restaurants."
maybe that will help.

[JereArmen]

Yes! It helps to know we NEED the definite article. Thank you!