"A férfi egy magasat keres."

Translation: The man is looking for a tall one.

[GarethShaw2]

Really confusing sentence

[MiklosBalo2]

This is wrong. Why should it be a person? Only "something tall" should be accepted.

[AtalinaDove]

When we see these adjectives used as nouns in the accusative, could we also translate it, for example in this case, as "something tall"?

[hatcher]

That would be "valami magasat". "A férfi valami magasat keres."

[theQM]

Why not valamit magas? Wouldn't the adjective go back to being an adjective and then would valami not need to be a noun in the accusative? I feel like I'm missing something here...

[1105632951]

It should accept "tall person" as well, no?

[bengoodhall]

I agree. As a native english speaker, I would never say "a tall one", and I would have no idea what someone meant if they said "a tall one". I think "a tall person" and/or "something tall", depending on how Hungarian speakers use it.

[ImreKerr]

"A tall one" would be a beer. :)

[Tom698897]

It is kind of tricky in terms of translation. We do sort of do that in English, saying things like "small one, tall one" but it isn't common.

[marc672457]

Very strange topics.