"Nem, nem vagyok arab."

Translation: No, I am not Arab.

[Ishana92]

The most important hungarian sentence to say on the southern border

[chunnas]

should this sentance translate, No I am not an Arab

[Findil]

That's a possible translation as well.

[chunnas]

Im confused because in my head it does not sound right.. No I am not Arab!!
should it not be... either No, I am not an Arab or No, I am not Arabic.... Many thanks for the reply

[Findil]

It seems that "Arab" can be used as an adjective as well: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arab#Adjective

[chunnas]

koszonom szepen :p

[williamnw]

It can be such as Arab dress, but not a person. A person is an arab or Arabic.

[Judit294350]

The adjective "Arabic" cannot be used for people.

[Martybet]

'No I am not Arab' is NOT accepted now. Maybe it should have remained along with other choices 'an Arab, Arabic' etc etc. I agree it sounds awkward but I'm not sure that it's not wrong. Unless it's politicly incorrect that is :)

[bakkers4]

Mine was just accepted...

[Yakuul]

Note that 'arabic' is only in reference to the language, all other references will be in the form 'arab'.

[Harry658825]

True, people are not Arabic, they're Arab.

[DaleEnlight]

I have another thought about people: are they not
Arabian and the language Arabic? My English translation of this exercise was, "No, I am not Arabian." and it was acceptable.

[ataltane]

But Arabian here could only mean from Arabia (i.e., Saudi Arabia), not 'Arab(ic)' generally.

[Yakuul]

Yeah, it's an outdated term in English, coined before the rise of modern nation states in the Arab Gulf (Saudi Ar., Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain), referring to that geographic region, not one specific people, though at the time, i'm sure English speakers thought of them as all the same.

[salvadorlopz]

fff I gotta feeling this one would come in handy if I went to Hungary

[KuroKasai]

No, I'm not arabica

[DaleEnlight]

Just a caffeine addict? :)