"Van egy asztal a fiú és a lány között."
Translation:There is a table in between the boy and the girl.
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I don't understand the structure/word placement of this sentence at all...
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Van egy asztal = there is table. (Van can be both "there is" or "is", depending on the sentence, but it the sentence starts with Van egy, it is very likely that we deal with a There is a construction. )
a fiú és a lány között = between the boy and the girl. között is a postposition, so it is placed after the thing it refers to, unlike in English, there between is placed before.
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Yeah, I'm starting to struggle too. There is a table, the boy and the girl, between. When it's written and I have time I could just about follow it but if I was hearing this in Hungary I'd be all over the place.
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Can you explain me, please: There is a table in between the boy and the girl. Is this "in" correct in English? ( I am german native speaker).
I translated "... egy asztal..." by "... one table..." and got corrected. I thought since egy = one (the numeral), it could be used in this context. Is there a reason it's not possible here?
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In this sentence the word egy means the article not the number. There ist a table between them.
Just curious, since "Van" is at the beginning of the sentence, could this be interpreted as a question "Is there a table between the boy and the girl"?
