"Tíz nagy, fekete busz áll a ház elé."

Translation: Ten big, black buses pull up in front of the house.

[whizza]

If the translation to English is "Ten big black buses are standing in front of the house" then why is the Hungarian sentence not "Tíz nagy fekete busz áll a ház előtt" ? From previous exercises it seems that "állni" can mean to "drive up or park", so combining this fact with elé , doesn't this imply motion (whereas the current accepted English translation suggests the buses are standing motionless in front of the house)?

[Shamarth]

You are right, the translation doesn't match. The Hungarian sentence indeed expresses motion.

[joelp]

I think 'coming to a stop in front of the house' might be a good translation.

[joelp]

Big and large are totally synonomous and should be equally accepted. There is no consistency in this course about their use.

[Bastette54]

Aaagh, this drives me nuts. "Buses are parking" does not make sense in English. You could say "buses are being parked," though.

[Zsuzsi97194]

Agree, this is very frustrating because different people seem to be writing various lessons and they are not talking to each other, and/or there is no dictionary being compiled for all with synonyms.

[guntunge]

Until autonomous driving. Then they will park themselves.

[Zsuzsi97194]

We don't need self-driving cars - we need self flying people. (Actually there already drone backpacks that can lift someone over the wall from Mexico to the U.S as long as they weigh less than 200 lbs. ) Oh, I forgot, they already have them in Hungary but they are mostly kindergarten teachers.

[Bastette54]

That's it! Duolingo Hungarian is ahead of its time!

[Judit294350]

"Buses park" works though.

[clairelanc3]

Don't you think "pull up in front of the house " should be accepted? It does sjow the mivement...

[vytah]

Would "are stopping" be a good translation?

[matanov]

What about "are pulling over"?

[Bastette54]

I think "pulling up" would be better. That implies that the buses are just reaching their destination and coming to a stop. "Pull over" means to drive to the side of the road and stop, not necessarily at the destination.

[Zsuzsi97194]

I agree that pulling up is the best translation but where would we have come up with that so far in the vocabulary being taught?

[Bastette54]

"áll a ház elé" expresses the idea of "moving toward in front of the house." It's just that the English sounds awkward. "... pull up in front of the house" is a much better way to convey that information. (Note: this is true for US English, not sure if other dialects use it the same way.)

[jzsuzsi]

Ok, I changed the English translation, now it is
Ten big, black buses pull up in front of the house.

[EkS1xNex]

It must be an enormous house!

[Judit294350]

They call apartment blocks houses over there too.

[MercedesEm13]

ten big black buses pull up in front of the house.Why on earth was my answer rejected?Really DL can be rather nasty

[Bastette54]

It definitely should be accepted, considering that that is the English translation at the top of this page. Report it.