"Milyen nap van ma?"

Translation: What day is it today?

[antipythagoras]

My wrong translation was "what is the day like today". How would one ask this? I thought asking for a specific day would have required 'melyik' and not 'milyen'.

[bdori]

"Milyen nap van ma?" means "Which day of the week is it today?", it's a fixed expression.

Actually you're right, the sentence literally means "What is the day like today?". But nobody would answer: "It's a beautiful, sunny day.", everybody would say "Wednesday". You should change the sentence depending on the context, so that it's not the fixed expression any more. For example: "Milyen ez a mai nap?".

"Which day is it today?" would be literally "Melyik nap van ma?" but if someone would ask me this, I would have no idea what he wants to know.

[ingpeck]

That was really helpful. Thank you.

[MagdaQuinl]

I also thank you

[EsNkzo]

How would you say "what is the weather like today"?

"'Milyen' nap" sounds so much like asking "what kind of day", that i assumed it was asking about the weather.

[Imre565437]

Ma milyen az idő? / Milyen az idő ma? / Milyen idő van ma? / Ma milyen idő van?

[WinningFields]

"Hogy nap van ma?" would mean "What is the day like today?" ?

[bdori]

No, "Hogy nap van ma?" is not correct. "hogy" means "how" not "what... like".
"What is the day like today?" could be translated for example as "Milyen ez a mai nap?" but it depends on the context.

[magyartanulo]

I wrote 'Which day is it today?' which I think is actually more correct than 'What day is it today?' - could you change so that that's an accepted translation?

[Andrew359786]

Use the report button next time you see it come up

[AlexZimolo]

I omitted the "it" in this sentence, "What kind of day is today?" Is this incorrect english? (Signed wrong for Duo)

[Patricia460976]

It's perfectly good English. Apparently, though, it isn't the idiomatic translation of the phrase.