"Are you English?"
Translation:Angol vagy?
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You only omit van in third person. (Ön, while referring to formal you, gets the third person singular conjugation, that's why it's omitted here too.)
So with te the verb is obligatory: "Te angol vagy?"
That's not correct word order. Vagy in that position could only mean or. ("Or is he/she/it English?")
"Maga angol?" comes up as the correct answer. I have no idea where "Maga" came from.
Yes, but it's old-fashioned, somewhat like saying "himself" to mean "you." When I was in Transylvania, my Hungarian guide said that "Ön" was preferable to "maga." Both use the 3rd-person singular of the verb.
It is also correct, and it is accepted.
In Hungarian, the pronoun (én, te...) are usually dropped, because you know that information from the verb ending.
In English, there is no difference of any kind if you ask ''Are you English?''. However, in Hungarian there is. I see this mistake often being repeated here. The question in English applies to all Hungarian, as it can be interpreted as such.
Angol vagytok? Why it was considered wrong? Thanks for explaining, Sandra
"Vagytok" is plural, so the adjective/noun must be plural too: "angolok."