"Mik az épületek?"

Translation: What are the buildings?

[Krisbaudi]

What are the buildings? I would never use this sentence in English or German
What is the meaning of it?

[linguafiqari]

"Are they banks? Are they hospitals? Are they libraries?" for example.

[Krisbaudi]

Thank you :-). But in this case I would always use "these" and not "they" (like for people).

[linguafiqari]

"They" is perfectly normal English for inanimate objects

Source: Native English speaker

[egyszervolt]

Yeah, you are right. This example in this form implies that you are want to know what are the buildings at large. I mean the answer could be: they are some man built objects usually with walls and roof etc.

[AGreatUserName]

By "at large", do you mean "in general"?

[egyszervolt]

Yes.

[kcalev]

Is the "at large", to mean "generally" , etc, a common form in Hungarian? what's the way to say that in Hungarian?

[ion1122]

1. What are buildings?
2. What are the buildings?
3. What are these buildings?
4. What are those buildings?
5. What buildings are these?
6. What buildings are those?

I believe that the Hungarian sentence at the head of this page, 'Mik az épületek', is the Hungarian equivalent of #2. What are the Hungarian equivalents of the other five sentences?

[RyagonIV]

1. Mi az épület? ; Mik az épületek?
2. Mik az épületek?
3. Mik ezek az épületek?
4. Mik azok az épületek?
5. Ezek milyen épületek?
6. Azok milyen épületek?

[ion1122]

Köszönöm!

[DenisPitcher]

Judging by the hint regarding az, it is likely a more natural translation would be "what are those buildings", speaking of a specific group of buildings. Similar to when you would say "what is that building".

[linguafiqari]

• Az = The
• Azok az = Those

It is "Az" and not "A" because the following word starts with a vowel.

[DenisPitcher]

Great, thanks

[Zsuzsi97194]

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