"A katonák leesnek a lóról."

Translation: The soldiers fall off the horses.

[mithwiz]

What makes horses plural? Or is that a mistake?

[jsiehler]

Partly, the answer is context. Multiple soldiers wouldn't be falling off one horse. "The soldiers are falling down from the horse" is a grammatically possible reading of the sentence, but a very unlikely one in practice.

In general, Hungarian tends to use a singular form for the item possessed, when multiple people each possess one of it. The singular ló here is another manifestation of that tendency.

[mithwiz]

Ah I see. I thought that might be the case. I would thank you for the "magyarázat", but you actually "Englishized" it for me. ;) Nagyon szépen köszönöm!

[bnyugat]

So would lovakrol (with accents) be wrong?

[RyagonIV]

I guess it's like if you said in English "The soldiers fell off multiple horses." It's factually not wrong, but it sounds off and you might be misunderstood.

[weitzhandler]

You're amazing @RyagonIV!

[guntunge]

I don't see a problem: two soldiers falling off one horse. This sentence gives no number and provides a single horse, so this would be my first thought. No mass falling of an entire group, which is imho more unlikely than a single incident.

If we are talking about mutiple horses I would expect "their horses" anyway. Whatever that is then in Hungarian.

[JohnWeber786406]

Well, possessives isn't until section 4 (I am not into it yet, although I passed the test to unlock it!

English has similar context - the soldiers travel by horse.
HUSZÁR shoutout!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussar

[jsiehler]

Napoleon meg Waterlóról.

[RyagonIV]

*groan*

[asillye]

Ez büntető

[JohnWeber786406]

How would ABBA handle that? lol

[BetsyLowe]

In English it would be "...falling off the horses." Will report.

[peter933474]

You could als say fall of their horse how would you say that in hungarian

[RyagonIV]

"Leesnek a lovukról."

[AlixdeLaRo1]

I think there is a little mistake it should be lovakról for horses and not lóról