"These are not shoes, but boots."
Translation:Ez nem cipő, hanem bakancs.
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When you are llooking for your "cipő" in Hungarian, you are actually looking for the pair. In English, looking for a "shoe" means you're looking for a single shoe, not a pair. So translating the plural shoes to singular cipő is ok.
If I remember correctly, to say that I am looking for one shoe, I would say fél cipő, right?
I'm not exactly sure as I can't find any source for this :D But "félcipő" written together is a type of shoe and yes I think I would say "fél cipő" written separately when looking for one half of a pair of shoes.
In a shoe shop, in front of a shelf that contains only boots: „I am looking for shoes. These are not shoes, but boots!“. Is the correct Hungarian translation in this case plural or singular?
This is slightly ambiguous, but in Hungarian "cipő" stands for a pair of shoes most of the time, while in English the shoes as plural usually just stand for a pair of shoes . Eg. I'm looking for my shoes (to wear right now), would be translated to "Keresem a cipőmet"). See plural vs singular in the English and Hungarian. Also, the plural of bakancs would be bakancsok.
