"A turisták egy régi szép kertbe mennek."

Translation: The tourists are going to a beautiful old garden.

[jzsuzsi]

This was mentioned at the discussion of another sentence, but still:

In English, there is a given order of adjectives :
General opinion, Specific opinion, Size , Shape, Age, Colour, Nationality, Material

So, the correct English solution would be "beautiful old garden". In Hungarian I don't know about such word-order rule, even if there is a rule, it is still freeer than the English one.
For example: Ez egy szép régi ház. Azok a régi szép napok. Both are fine.

It is a tricky question, then, what should a good Dou-translation be?
I would like if both "old beautiful garden" and "beautiful old garden" would be accepted. If the first one is not accepted, those who translate word-by-word get anxious, and if the second one is not accepted, then those who know English grammar.

:)

[piguy3]

That's the sort of "rule" they use to teach ESL/EFL students I suppose. Natives (who of course aren't conscious of it in the least unless they happen to have read about it somewhere) honor it in the breach: I think it's pretty analogous to Hungarian neutral word order; you can deviate from it all day long, which adds useful emphasis.

This brings me to my question: "old, beautiful garden" (as AtalinaDove points out, the comma is mandatory) being perfectly correct English, it nonetheless carries quite a strong emphasis on "beautiful." Is the order of the adjectives in Hungarian based on a similar consideration: whatever is closest to the noun is being emphasized?

[mizinamo]

I think only "beautiful old garden" should be accepted.

Word-for-word translation doesn't work in lots of Duo sentences anyway.

Alternatively, "an old and beautiful garden" could work.

[AtalinaDove]

"old, beautiful garden" is also correct English, but commas aren't recognized in Duolingo...

[Jerry233235]

Common usage generally trumps grammar among native speakers. Both solutions are "correct" but "beautiful old garden" seems to be the most intuitive way to say it

[JMaxGlobal]

"The tourists are going into a nice old garden".

[xclnc]

On Duolingo web the audio is missing, so reported ('The audio does not sound correct.').

[AlexandruC530730]

The tourists are going in an old pretty garden. The bird is telling me that im wrong.

[BigWayne19]

-------- duo is fussy about inTO . . .

Big 27 apr 19

[Uli190733]

What about "The tourists go into an old beautiful garden."? Was not accepted.

[BigWayne19]

-------- should be . i hope you reported that your version should be accepted . . .

Big 2 mar 19