"A busz előtt tizenegy autó halad."
Translation:Eleven cars are moving in front of the bus.
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how do you know when to put bus in front or the cars in front? I said that the bus moves in front of eleven cars. How can I get this correct next time with a similar sentence?
Előtt comes immediately after the thing that it applies to. Since you see A busz előtt in the sentence, you know it means "in front of the bus."
The whole sentence could be arranged in several word-orders, but if you want the meaning to be "in front of the bus," then a busz előtt has to stay glued together as one unit.
If something was happening "in front of eleven cars" then you would have tizenegy autó előtt somewhere in the sentence instead.
A busz tizenegy autó előtt halad would be one way to translate your sentence, "The bus moves in front of eleven cars."
Thank you so much! Up until this point I was always just guessing the word order, like a puzzle! :)
