"You are not artists, but actors."

Translation: Nem művészek vagytok, hanem színészek.

[KatyLovesFrench]

ti nem muveszek vagytok, hanem szineszek - why is this not correct? (apart from the missing accents)

[jsiehler]

It's fine. You can include the pronoun or leave it out.

[roundand]

It's accepted now, at least with correct accents.

[TomkaDominique]

same question - "Ti nem művészek vagytok, hanem színészek" is said to be wrong!

[weitzhandler]

Why doesn't művészek become műveszek? Same for színész.

[jsiehler]

The shortening of a final-syllable vowel like that is an irregularity - it only happens with some words, and then only with some endings.

[vvsey]

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

[jsiehler]

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.

[jacobwagma1]

Can you leave out vagytok but have ti in the sentence

[vvsey]

"Vagytok" cannot be left out. The verb is only left out in the third person. But then it is not optional.
If you use the formal you, which uses the third person conjugation, the verb is left out:
"Ön(ök) nem művész(ek), hanem színész(ek)."

[WhiteLightLady]

Could someone tell me the logic as to why this is not correct? Nem vagytok művészek, hanem színészek. I seem to have a hard time with this order. When I was growing up, it was completely acceptable in our Hungarian household to say it either way and the way I wrote it seems to be the way I remember saying it. Thank you!