"Ez egy hosszú hét."
Translation:This is a long week.
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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.
Actually in Hebrew it's also almost the same, a week is שבוע (shavua) and seven is שבע (sheva).
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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.
- 1681
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.
"this" is better. "It" makes it more of a general statement, by using "this" you specify the week you're talking about, IMO.
Why is 'last week' "múlt héten" but 'week' is only "hét"? Am I missing something easily overlooked?
"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".
Its not realy "during", more "upon." "During the week" would be more "hétközben."
"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."
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.
Nope, moreover even "This is going to be a long week" makes perfect sense. People have the ability to make prognoses for the future or judge the result based on the current conditions.
