"Már hétvége van."
Translation:It is already the weekend.
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Is there an article missing in the English translation, "It is already the weekend" or "It is the weekend already"?
Leaving out articles like this is in fact a stereotypical way to caricature foreign speakers of English.
Boris, you have great idea? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMvcyTKhqls
(Natasha, it is already weekend!)
As a learner of the Hungarian language, I appreciate seeing what the Hungarian means and why. The definite article may be appropriate in English but should not be required for a Hungarian language course. ...unless duolingo is trying to be an electronic phrasebook rather than a language learning tool.
The problem is that the English speakers get the answer wrong when it asks us to go from Hungarian to English because we expect the article. Such issues are why they require people who are fluent (or nearly so) in both languages for helping develop a course. "Purpose of the course" is not an excuse to not get it right for both languages.
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Yes, foreigners like me, have to improve their English as well, especially in THIS course. :-) Many things are totally new for me, even after beeing over 50 % in Duo-English. I appreciate it and am glad about the explanations.
First of all, it's hétvége, not hétvégé. Second, "van hétvége" means "weekend does exist" or "there is weekend". With sentences that refer to some environmental condition like temperature, brightness, time with an "X van" type phrase, the usual "predicate stressed" word order is "X van" and not "van X".