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Could you translate "ügyes" as "capable"? I did, and it was rejected - I wonder if I should report it.
Is ügyesek only "able"? Isn"t something like "good boy/girl" or well done in "ügyes vagy"?
Both okos and ügyes translate well into English as "clever" most often. But okos is "clever with your mind/wits" (it comes from the word ok which means "reason"), whereas ügyes can be "clever with your hands / skills"
I translated "okos" as "smart", and it was rejected. In American English, "intelligent" and "smart" are pretty much synonyms.
I thought Hu for "smart" was "elegans". Does "okos" mean "clever" rather than "smart"?
"elegans" means "smart" as in "she is wearing a smart dress", in other words, stylish, elegant. In the U.S., we almost never use "smart" in that way, but only for "intelligent".
Pretty, smart and able? Naturally - we are the flying kindergarten teachers.
I don't like the translation of "ügyes" as able, I would rather say: skillful or talented. Usually Hungarians, when they hear me speaking something in Hungarian say: "ügyes vagy!" and i feel proud :D but if I would translate it as: you are able (to speak, what?), I would just feel retarded.
I would merely add to the discussion that "capable" in this context is preferable to the word, "able".
----------- fwiw, duo gave me full credit for okos as smart . . .
Big 26 mar 18
In another question in the SAME lesson, talented was accepted for ügyes. Here it's not. Come on now...
