"Az óvónők tolják a lányokat."

Translation: The kindergarten teachers are pushing the girls.

[AtalinaDove]

What kind of "pushing"? Physical? Or just in a figurative sense?

[Findil]

It means pushing them physically. With the right context it can also be used figuratively, but that's not very common.

[Roberto343666]

I hate the kindergarten teachers... Wherever they appear, I have to answer wrong twice or more, to finally get to the correct solution :-)

[JanaDzsana]

Maybe like pushing them on the swings?

[Maminti.]

or they push them in the pram

[mizinamo]

tolják sounds like tolyák to me (i.e. like toják - I don't hear the /l/).

Is this normal?

I believe that lj often sounds like ly in imperatives; is this also the case in the definite conjugation?

[Andreas305]

Your impression is right.

tanuljuk => spoken as tanujjuk

indulj => spoken as indujj

állj => spoken as ájj

That is a phenomenon appearing in the definite conjugation as well as building the imperative, because the required j-vowel melts with the vowel before.

[mizinamo]

I think you mean "with the consonant before" (vowel = a e i o ö u ü, consonant = b c cs d ...).

Ah, so I should have heard "tojják" with double or long /j/ rather than just "toják", I suppose.

Thanks for the confirmation!

[Andreas305]

Yes, of course, CONSONANTS I meant.

Thank you also :-)

[Bruce949530]

At least they are not flying them this time.

[janos99]

"the nursery teachers are pushing the girls" - please tell me why this answer was not accepted when all through the course I have used the British English of "nursery teachers" rather than the AmeroGerman 'Kindergarten' teachers.

[kojoj0]

Is "nursery teachers" an acceptable translation of óvónők?