"Az alacsony lány ott vár, ahol te."
Translation:The short girl is waiting where you are waiting.
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People keep reporting "The short girl is waiting where are you waiting." Please don't. "where you are waiting" is a better word order. In this sentence, where is not a question word, but a conjuction.
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It's not merely better in this case, for either standard or colloquial native English - it would never be taught as an option. "The short girl is waiting where are you waiting" is distinctly foreign-influenced English and no native would phrase it that way - however living in San Francisco, we have many foreigners so I hear it often but it does not prevent most if anyone from understanding. I think this is interference from using a wh-word (in the subclause), for which language learners are taught in forming questions take a verb immediately after if. e.g. Where are you waiting? But this isn't a question, so no inversion takes place.
Ahol te ? It's said where you not where you are waiting. Who is translating this ?
Fun fact: it's rather unlikely any Hungarian would repeat the verb. We were talking about waiting so it's assumed that the verb would be the same. I'm not sure any English speaker would say "The short girl is waiting where you." In the meantime, this feels an obvious and natural way in Hungarian.
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The "a" means the adverb is no longer a question but rather a link to a subservient clause.
I thought so too. But I guess not. Going to report this and see what happens.
It makes little sense grammatically combinging Present Continuous and Simple like thag
"The litle girl" suggests that the girl is quite young, whereas "the short girl" describes her height, regardless of her age.
Thos doesnt seem grammatically correct. We are not asking where "you" are waiting. There should be no comma: "the short girl is waiting where you are waiting"- they are waiting in the same place.
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No way does that sound like "var" but more like "mar" (with accents over the a in each word) !