"Ez egy hosszú hét."

Translation: This is a long week.

[germanwannabee]

I just realized that the word for week and the word for seven are the same! This will be so much easier to remember now.

[weitzhandler]

Actually in Hebrew it's also almost the same, a week is שבוע (shavua) and seven is שבע (sheva).

[wolfleis]

Didn't spot that one before, though it is not an unusual pattern.

Compare sette and settimana in Italian or septyni and savaitę in Lithuanian.

[gabriel246188]

Thats on porpos ;)

[wolfleis]

Didn't spot that one before, though it is not an unusual pattern.

Compare sette an settimana in Italian or septyni and savaitę in Lithuanian.

[Kas334864]

And seven is hepta in Greek. Even easier.

[koliv72]

it is a long week ?

[Evolita]

"this" is better. "It" makes it more of a general statement, by using "this" you specify the week you're talking about, IMO.

[weitzhandler]

You're right, however I agree it should be accepted too.

[JimmRepp]

This is a long lesson.

[Evolita]

... tell me about it

[Melanie294716]

Why is 'last week' "múlt héten" but 'week' is only "hét"? Am I missing something easily overlooked?

[mizinamo]

"last week" is not just a noun phrase like "December" -- it's also an adverbial specifying when something happened like "in December". You could think of it as "during the last week". (My friend visited me last week = My friend visited me during the last week.)

The -en ending in héten serves the same purpose as the "during" part of "during the last week".

[gabriel246188]

Its not realy "during", more "upon." "During the week" would be more "hétközben."

[Melanie294716]

Ah much clearer now, köszönöm!

[gabriel246188]

"Mult héten" is not last week. It is "on last week." Mult hét is just plain last week. Thats why "mult héten vásároltam" is correct. It is Lit.: "on last week I went shoping."

[Joachim734726]

Now a didactic difference! How do we know that the week is long in the present tense? This WAS a long week! That makes sense, not is a long week.