"Szépek, okosak és ügyesek vagyunk."

Translation: We are beautiful, smart and skillful.

[Bastette54]

Could you translate "ügyes" as "capable"? I did, and it was rejected - I wonder if I should report it.

[Patricia460976]

I think you should.

[JMaxGlobal]

Pretty, smart and able? Naturally - we are the flying kindergarten teachers.

[harpyofoldghis]

We are Marry Poppins

[-BigWayne19-]

----- marry is ha'zassa'g . maybe you meant mary ? or merry ? . . .

Big 27 apr 21

[harpyofoldghis]

Hahaha of course I meant Mary (Poppins)

[MojitoGreen]

Is ügyesek only "able"? Isn"t something like "good boy/girl" or well done in "ügyes vagy"?

[jsiehler]

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"

[vvsey]

Yes, it is all that. Clever, skillful, adept, that sort of thing.

[Paul607642]

I thought Hu for "smart" was "elegans". Does "okos" mean "clever" rather than "smart"?

[MacLomain]

"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".

[Patricia460976]

We used to and some of us, infatuated with extended vocabularies, still do.

[matanov]

Exactly.

[michal2052]

And of course humble :)

[MacLomain]

I translated "okos" as "smart", and it was rejected. In American English, "intelligent" and "smart" are pretty much synonyms.

[Tom543711]

Just flag it as "my answer should be accepted"

[JMaxGlobal]

I would merely add to the discussion that "capable" in this context is preferable to the word, "able".

[rachygar]

smart is american english

[Martin828915]

Yes, and for us Brits it's annoyingly ambiguous. We prefer to use clever for this and smart for appearance

[imaginarium216]

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.

[Harry_the_Hyrax]

Nah, "able" works just fine here.

[Auke15348]

In another question in the SAME lesson, talented was accepted for ügyes. Here it's not. Come on now...

[AnCatDubh]

...and modest!

[-BigWayne19-]

----------- fwiw, duo gave me full credit for okos as smart . . .

Big 26 mar 18

[DV-Mac]

Use-of-plural question: I thought adjectives weren’t plural until after the plural (in this case, vagyunk) gets established.

[-BigWayne19-]

..."Szépek, okosak és ügyesek vagyunk."

------ if i change the sentence slightly, "sze'p, okos, e's u:gyes emberek vagyunk " , the plurals go away. when an adjective precedes the noun it modifies, it doesn't agree . since there's no noun (except for sze'pek, okosak, e's u:gyesek ) these adjectives become the nouns themselves . . .

Big 29 oct 20

[Martha94435]

Please stop using "able" as a translation of "ügyes". "Capable", "talented", "clever with our hands" all work, but "able" does not, because no competent English speaker would ever utter "We are able" except as the first half of "We are able to do that".

[Martybet]

You might find that some will disagree with you there Martha.

[Martin828915]

Smart is used in English for clever, as in American English, but it also means smartly dressed, so I wish you would use clever to avoid any ambiguity. Not everyone speaks American English!