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- "Kinek a cipője ez?"
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Random, I guess? They might have entered just one translation in the first place and expect the beta-testers to suggest the rest. :´)
------- so, is it fair, then, to translate this as: whose shoeS ARE THESE ? . . .
Big 6 jun 19
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It seems odd to introduce "whose" and the different-from-English fact that shoes are a collective noun in Hungarian (and so, not plural). Why not introduce "kinek" first with a noun that has a more direct translation so there is only one new concept at a time?
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I agree with GeminaVexilla: translating "ez" as "it" is Wrong. It should be either "Whose shoe is this?" or "Whose shoes are these?". In the other direction, i.e. translating "Whose shoe is it" from English to Hungarian, that'd be "Kinek a cipője az?"
It's right there in Martha's last sentence: "Kinek a cipője az?" (or "Az kinek a cipője?").
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That was not in her original comment.
Plus in the Reverse Tree "Whose shoe is it?" uses ez - not az.
There is no consistency and the creators break their own rulers. We know that cipő is shoes. In Hungarian it can be either a single shoe or the pair, but then every exercise my allow the use of these translations. Bear in mind that unless it is clearly indicated, in English always that we say shoes we refer to the pair of shoes.
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"Whose shoe is it?" is quite normal English - and "Kinek a cipője ez?" would be how you'd translate it.
Must be regional; I would never say "it" in this context. And translating "ez" as "it" is just wrong, regardless of context.
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Possibly regional. It is quite standard in NZ. However, there is not other way of translating "it" in a sentence like this.
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Nothing - but neither is "it". Each would be used in slightly different circumstances - perhaps (I would normally only use "this" if actually holding the shoe - if I point to it I'd use "it") - but both are translated into the same Hungarian.
