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It's a way of referring to a group of (people, animals, objects, etc) in a general way. The definite article is used with the word. Ex: "Cats sleep a lot" = "A macskák sokat alszanak." English doesn't do this so much, but I've seen others that do.
I don't understand why the definite conjugation is used, though. It's referring to all lawyers, not any specific one (or ones).
Definite conjugation is much more of a syntactic rule than a semantic. You see a definite article in front of the direct object - you can be sure it will be definite conjugation.
Wow, such a Wingman is Duo. I hope this wasn't said during court though...
I hate the fact that my upvote brought your comment to zero. Who would downvote this?
I guess it was considered off. There doesn't seem to be any kind of consensus about supposedly funny offtopic remarks - sometimes they get upvoted a lot, sometimes they get downvoted a lot...
I think 'nice' should also be accepted as a translation for szép as it reads better in English.
I think this is the exact reason it should not be accepted. It would give you the false impression the sentence is about lawyers that are kind. It is not. It is by all means about lawyers that look good.
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Almost right with, Janos instead of János - at least give the letter to select the correct vowel = 'á'
I don't know if this is a mistake, but on one lesson when I wrote szép = beautiful, it suggested pretty, but on this exercise it's incorrect.
In English, "nice" slightly covers the meaning of "szép" but it has connotations (e.g kind) that "szép" does not have at all.
Nothing wrong with "nice" at all. Sometimes the answers are too restrictive and pedantic.
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The word szép is only used to mean "nice" when referencing objects or actions. If it refers to an actual person it will mean pretty.
It's very similar to how in French the verb 'aimer' means 'to like' unless referring to a person, in which case it becomes 'to love'. In the French course they are strict about this as well.
"János sees rarely pretty lawyers" is very awkward-sounding English. I don't think it should be accepted.
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Szép means nice, pretty or beautiful while ügyvéd means lawyer or attorney. They should all be accepted!
I think I've told you several times to stop with that "solutions are the Descartes product of hints" misconception. "nice" for a person isn't about outlook while "szép" is about outlook so that just won't fit.
