"There are not fifty-two trees standing by the river, but seventy-two."
Translation:Nem ötvenkét fa áll a folyó mellett, hanem hetvenkettő.
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2013
Is the following sentence correct? (with repositioned "áll" verb)
Nem ötvenkét fa a folyó mellett áll , hanem hetvenkettő.
It's not accepted as proper.
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No, that won't work. The focus is on the object right in front of the verb, so it's on the place in your sentence. Naturally the listener would expect then that you said not only how many trees are there, but also where they are instead. You're basically negating both pieces of information.
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From the sentence in english it is not apparent that you should negate both...it seems like you are to negate just the numbers but the place holds
This word order does not work. See my nem-hanem post here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/29387891
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Have just read your post, and it's helpful. I'll need to refer to it repeatedly! Could a link to the post be put into 'tips', or would that make 'tips' too complicated?
There are tips to this lesson, just not on the hanem word order topic. That was a previous lesson.
There ARE tips in the hungarian course. Not every lesson has one, but there are tips. You may need to use the website to see them, apps probably do not show them.
The Spanish course has tips with each set of lessons. Why can the Hungarian and Russian courses do the same? And,if you had not told me I should not have known even about having to go to the website. It would be more sensible to have the instructions from the start.....
You may need to ask Duolingo about the app. The hungarian course is beta, not sure how much say they have if tips should show up in it.
Why is it that ötvenkettö doesnt get accepted and hetvenkettö is must while ötvenkét is a must and hetvenkét gets rejected ..... just ridiculous and very annoying....like where exactly is the diffrence. Két is just another word for Kettö...so why is that so important in this sentence??
For one thing, this is still the beta phase, many possible sentences have yet to be added. Please keep reporting them via "Report a problem".
The other thing is, "két" needs a noun behind it. You can't just say "két". Even if it is "hetvenkét". It does require a noun. "Kettő", on the other hand, can stand without a noun after it. The usual way is to say "két" with a following noun, and "kettő" without a noun. But "kettő" can also have a noun. So, the sentence could end in one of three ways:
- "... hanem "hetvenkettő."
- "... hanem ketvenkettő fa."
- "... hanem hetvenkét fa."
Now, in this sentence, 52 could be either "ötvenkét" or "ötvenkettő". If one of them is not accepted, please report it.
And if we moved the subject to the second clause, then the rules would change accordingly. It would be a mandatory "ötvenkettő" and a selectable "hetvenkettő"/"hetvenkét".
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JanetHedle mentioned "tips". There ARE NO TIPS in this course. (There are in the spanish course). I am tired of making mistakes because there is no help until you have made the error, lost a heart, and plough your way through all the comments. I am ready to give up.
In certain cases "két" and "kettő" are interchangeable, but not in every case. If you want to go for certain, just use kettő (that also has the benefit that people would not mistake it with "hét" [seven]
Going with a google search, "két" can be used when it's a numerical adjective (két alma - two apples), but one must use "kettő" when it is used as a subject, direct object, adverb.
(that said there are some compound words which uses "két" like "kétbalkezes" [two left handed])
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Nincs means "there is no". It talks about the nonexistence of something. But in this case there is something, a whole bunch of trees.
Or differently expressed, nincs has the focus on itself, but since you're contrasting numbers here, those numbers need to be in the focus: "nem [number] van" is the essential part here.
It is more correct to put the verb at the end: Nem ötvenkét fa a folyó mellett áll . Why do you say this is not correct?
That is an english construct to indicate the presence of things. Hungarian doesnt need it.
It is more correct to say "Nem ötvenkét fa a folyó mellett áll" with the verb at the end.
It is not more correct. Is that even accepted? Because I would not, the verb really should be right after the negated subject.