"A házon nincs tető."

Translation: The house does not have a roof.

[O_Matty]

What about "The house has no roof"?

[Zsuzsi97194]

Me too

[RyagonIV]

"A háznak nincs tetője van."

[jsiehler]

Just A háznak nincs tetője - or teteje, both spellings are used.

[RyagonIV]

Whoopsa, you're right. I tend to forget that nincs already contains van.

[Zeyadlol]

I dont know it didn't get it right to me

[Arcaeca]

Soha nem esik az eső vagy hó magyarországban?

[bnyugat]

Szeged, city of sunshine!

[Wazav94]

Budapesten sokat szokott esni. (by the way *Magyarországon)

[MidknightPhoenix]

could this be There isn't a roof on the house.

[RyagonIV]

That sounds a bit strange in English. First you say something doesn't exist, and then you state where it doesn't exist? "There is no" sounds much better.

[Ben.Duthie]

The sentence makes sense to me. Isn't it pretty much the same thing as 'There is no roof on the house'.

[RyagonIV]

It does make sense, yes, but the grammar seems off to me. If you go for nonexistance, you usually use "There is no [noun]." There is no knife in the kitchen. There are no fish in the river. There is no joy in my life. Or perhaps with "There isn't any [noun]". But "There isn't a [noun]" sounds strange.

Perhaps the reason is that "not" is an adverb, and "to be" has a pretty hard time with adverbs. If you start with "There is not a roof on the house", I kinda expect you to follow with "but an airship". Like, what is on the house instead. It sounds like "A házon nem tető van."

[Ben.Duthie]

I'm starting to see what you mean. English certainly is a difficult language.

[Zsuzsi97194]

It is the other way around. Magyar is more complicated.

[niciland]

Soha nem esik!!! :)

[jsiehler]

Hatalmasan esett az eső, és leesett a tető.