"Ki áll a mellett a nagy sárga autó mellett?"
Translation:Who is standing next to that big yellow car?
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Why is the answer insisting on "that big yellow car" rather than "the big yellow car"? There's no "az a sárga autó"
All postpositions do this - if there's a demonstrative az or ez in front of the noun, then it has to receive the postposition as well. And it will lose the z if the postposition begins with a consonant.
a piros alma (the red apple)
a piros alma mellett (beside the red apple)
az a piros alma (that red apple)
a mellett a piros alma mellett (beside that red apple)
ez előtt a piros alma előtt (in front of this red apple)
e mögött a piros alma mögött (behind this red apple) and so on.
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Why is mellett in the sentence twice: Ki áll a mellett a nagy sárga autó mellett. I've never seen a sentence need to say beside twice like this, unless ur talking about being beside one object that is itself beside another, which isn't the cae here.