"Az egy fiú vagy egy lány?"

Translation: Is that a boy or a girl?

[zamlet]

The word "vagy" is both a verb ("(you) are") and a conjunction ("or")? That seems like an odd combination. Is there some finer grammatical point that I'm missing?

[Ektoraskan]

Nah. It's just like how "left" is both the opposite of right and the past tense of leave. Nothing too exciting about it.

[mizinamo]

And az is both "the" and "that", right?

[Ektoraskan]

Yes, if the word starts with a vowel.

Az a szék (that chair)

Az az asztal (that table)

Ez a szék (this chair)

Ez az asztal (this table)

[RyanMeskil]

Isn't is perfectly acceptable to translate it as 'That is a boy or a girl?" I guess not grammatically correct in English, but it's the direct translation, no?

[dont_tread_on_me]

Yea, the literal translation would be like this, but we cannot translate everything literally.

[GrubbaFong]

It would be quite helpful, when learning this, if the "slow-it-down" turtle button ever actually worked. Why have it if it is inoperable?

[SchlachterZoltan]

Because computers can't speak Hungarian :)
This is recorded real speach, not robot generated one, like in other courses.

[NISHADTAKS]

"That is a boy or a girl?"
Can this work too?

[LucijaKolo1]

"Is that a boy or a girl?" is same as "Is this a boy and a girl?" both of them should be given as a correct answer

[jzsuzsi]

that = az, and this= ez.