"A szállodáknál fiatal gyerekek várnak."

Translation: There are young children waiting by the hotels.

[asuntree]

Young children? are you kidding?

[SD-77]

What's the problem?

[pawlov]

I've never heard of old children, so all children would be young by default, don't you think? :)

[carolgoslen]

In English we do sometimes say "young children". I think of "young children" as referring to children in the early years of elementary school or preschool.

[Angela999999999]

:)

[Tielbert]

Are they in the hotels or near the hotels? What does AT mean here? I thought -nál is the position near, beside the object.

[Arpad737071]

Yes, you're right. It means 'near the hotels'. It's maybe not the best idea to use prepositions with multiple possible meanings.

[in_circles]

Content aside, could this be translated as "The young children...?"

[mizinamo]

That would have to be a fiatal gyerekek, I think, but there is no a in Duo's sentence in that noun phrase.

[in_circles]

Of course. I had a short-circuit moment. Thanks. :)

[anton_t13]

Not only you...

[Elmoreserve]

There is no "a" in phrases very often, yet Duo still requires "the"..

[cosmo-pedant]

Some rather young children are hanging around the hotels. (?) Edit (one week later): Oh, there is no word for "some" in the Hungarian sentence. Or "rather".

[mary714777]

I was marked wrong to say, Young children are waiting at the hotels.