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"Kati orvosokat keres és titkárnőket talál."
Translation:Kati is looking for doctors and finds secretaries.
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what is wrong with "kati is looking for doctors and finding secretaries"?
Nothing.
Usually, "find" is an action that occurs very quickly, so it's more commonly in the present simple.
But if there are many secretaries, these find-events may occur during a longer period of time (first she finds one, then another, then another - she keeps finding more and more secretaries), and then the present continuous would be appropriate.
Search doctors means to go through their stuff not to look for them...
I wrote: Kati is looking for doctors and finds female secretaries. --- and they say, it is wrong???
"Female secretaries"... this is not something you would actually say in English. But try reporting it.
That is true, but it could be good translate it that way to keep all the original meaning. Otherwise, you throw away the gender that was specified in Hungarian.
------ which is usually very gender non-specific . . .
Big 14 feb 20
------- yeah, but the meaning is that the other thing happens... but . . .
Big 14 feb 20
Dear ion 1122, Initially I am very bad at arguing things and especially in English but the facts speak themselves. If you see the word (Hanem), Google Translate typifies in hongars then appears in English But also
------- i agree with you, Liz. this should be "but " . unfortunately for our argument, "hanem " isn't in the (original ) sentence nor is "de " .
Big 14 feb 20
according to U "Bastette54 There's no "but" in the Hungarian sentence, only "and" (és) " I think In Hungarian there is a word "Hanem = but also" and another one about the same means "Azonban"
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In the sentence we are given here, there is no Hungarian word that means"but", only the word that means "and". Just as Bastette54 said.
elisabeth, what are you trying to say?
