"Odasétál vagy odafut?"
Translation:Is she walking there or running there?
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492
What about formal? Like in German? This course needs a bit of improvement. I'm a Hungarian native just taking the course out of curiosity.
- 1404
So many things to add, so little time. It'll take a while.
But then I have to ask: if you go to formal speech, wouldn't you usually spell out the pronoun, too? "Ön odasétál vagy odafut?"
- 492
You could but if you knew the context in this case it would not be necessary. This particular example could mean: Is he walking or running there? or Are You walking or running there? "You" is supposed to show that it is formal. Sometimes I feel that a picture would help the student decide what the situation is. Hope I helped.
- 1404
You help greatly. There's a lot of learn about Hungarian. :D
Translating from English to Hungarian is a bit daunting anyway, since for one particular verb you can end up with eight different translations in the worst case (you singular/plural, informal/formal, indefinite/definite). And, like in this case, four in the other direction (he/she/it, and you). So, patience while this course is built up and use the report function wherever needed. :)
