"You are not artists, but actors."
Translation:Nem művészek vagytok, hanem színészek.
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ti nem muveszek vagytok, hanem szineszek - why is this not correct? (apart from the missing accents)
same question - "Ti nem művészek vagytok, hanem színészek" is said to be wrong!
The shortening of a final-syllable vowel like that is an irregularity - it only happens with some words, and then only with some endings.
I wonder if the phenomenon can be tied to the core original vocabulary...
horse: ló - lovak
hand: kéz - kezek
bread: kenyér - kenyerek
palm of the hand: tenyér - tenyerek
It certainly seems to be a good guideline. Many examples are also among the fairly small group of words that are identifiably common to Finnish and Hungarian. Jég, tél, kéz, vér, víz, név, egér... and other v-words like ló and kő that have a long vowel.
