"Az étterem az áruház mellett van."

Translation: The restaurant is next to the department store.

[DJJG7]

At last! Another Germanic language-sounding word! Well, I am pretending, anyway: "Étterem," I am thinking, is like "eatery," a (too-common) word in the U.S. for "restaurant." But it sure will help me remember!

[dvdvdvdvd]

there are a lot of words like that probably borrowed from english

[vvsey]

Not this one though. :)
"Étterem" is a compound word, consisting of "ét" - related to food - and "terem" - a large room/hall.
But that should not stop you from pretending. :)

[Ampus_Questor]

Just a few, actually, And German 'Haus' rather than English 'house' was probably responsible for 'ház' .

[Wengusflengus]

I'm pretty sure it's a cognate of Finnish "koti" and Nortern Sami "goahti".

The words might seem distant, but Hungarian changed a lot of initial occlusives into fricatives (see fi. "kala"/hu. "hal" or fi. "puu"/hu. "fa") and the ending "-ti" in Proto-Uralic seems to often become -z in Hungarian (see fi. "vesi" (the underlying structure is "veti")/hu. "víz"). I'm reasonably sure it's not from German.

(I didn't use asterisks for "-ti" and "veti" because it just makes everything into italics)

[scarcerer]

You can use \ in front of an asterisk if you don't want italics. *Like this.*

[Paul607642]

I wrote "department store" as the cue suggested and got marked wrong

[Shamarth]

Report it.

[cockatielhour]

"beside" instead of ""next to" was rejected. Is that a substantial difference in Hungarian?

[MrtonPolgr]

I don't think so. You may report it.

[tberkes]

"beside" not accepted... Come on...

[Joe246011]

"The restaurant is next to the store department" why is it wrong?

[mizinamo]

An áruház is a department store -- not a "store department".

[Joe246011]

Ok thank you.

If I may ask, how do you say store department please?

[mizinamo]

I don't know.

It's not something I've ever talked about in English, either, though.

You might ask for the clothes department or the healthcare department, but talking about a "store department" in the abstract doesn't seem like a common thing to me.

Certainly not something I'd expect to learn in a basic course like Duolingo.

[Joe246011]

Okay. Well, I have heard about store department more than I have heard about department store. But, thanks again.

[Sxlty_Teardrxps]

It is still the same thing other way round why is it wrong

[MrtonPolgr]

Would you please elaborate?