"A fiatal férfi a vízre lép és sétál."

Translation: The young man steps onto the water and walks.

[Evolita]

... and his name was Jesus

[mizinamo]

...and his wife was a kindergarten teacher.

[Evolita]

what a power couple

[GerSzej]

no children yet, as he cannot catch her flying above the city.

[Cyron]

...but she falls into the blue sea.

[matthiasdg]

I think you mean "onto the sea" next to the airplane

[bnyugat]

My thought exactly!!

[LenaStorli]

Az óvóbacsi?

[O_Matty]

I may have asked this already, but how do I know it isn't saying, "The young man steps and walks onto the water?" As neither sentence sounds particularly typical in English, how do I know only one verb applies to the noun and not both?

[baldgymnastnurse]

Szerintem: Since lép comes directly after vízre we can assume it's step onto the water. Sétál could also be linked to vízre but it would be redundant to say in English: steps onto the water and walks onto the water. Therefore: steps onto the water and walks is most natural in English.

[EliotWinokur]

Onto the water makes no sense unless we are talking about Jesus or the kindergarten teacher again!! As far as I know into makes much more logical sense.

[jzsuzsi]

The Hungarian sentence is indeed talking about Jesus or the kindergarten teacher. Vízre. Into the water would be vízbe.

[Arpad737071]

olajra lép (lit. to step on oil) means to flee

[Bastette54]

This is another example where "re" is translated literally to "onto," when in English, "into" would make much more sense. I've seen this several times. I admit it did give me a laugh, though.

[dragoncurve]

I think in this case it was meant to mean "onto".
But I agree with you. I just had the opposite case 5 min ago, where it is "into" in Hungarian and "onto" in English.

[JanBending]

so not only kindergarten teachers possess these special powers !

[Kati673185]

nagyon fura mondat - a vízre lép?