"Titeket festenek a művésznők."

Translation: The artists are painting you.

[Melissa_I-B]

I'm a bit lost here...could someone explain to me why "titeket" is "you" in this situation?

[jzsuzsi]

For those who cannot see the Tips&Notes (because of the app), I copy it here:

Accusative pronouns

By now, you know very well how to form the accusative of a noun. Unfortunately, pronouns are slightly more complicated and have special forms (like they do in English!). Look at the following table:

Person/Number	Nominative	Accusative
1SG	én ‘I’	engem ‘me’
2SG	te ‘you (sg.)’	téged ‘you (sg., obj.)’
3SG	ő ‘he/she/it’	őt ‘him/her/it’
1PL	mi ‘we’	minket ‘us’
2PL	ti ‘you (pl.)’	titeket ‘you (pl., obj.)’
3PL	ők ‘they’	őket ‘them’

[Kifike]

Jzsuzsi Én nem mondtam, hogy a titeket helytelen, csak azt, hogy a bennetek szebb. Te is tudod jól, hogy ezek el is maradhatnak, a ragozás egyértelmű nélkülük is. Udv

[cosmo-pedant]

I did not read the Tips and Notes section yet either.

[Kifike]

Melissa, it is the correct object case of the ti, but exists an other form too: benneteket. I like it better. Native Hungarian

[JohnWeber786406]

I cannot believe I got burned over festenek! I got confused because I thought it was first person singular!
én festek
te festesz
ő fest
mi festünk
ti festetek
ők festenek

[IvoArts1]

If you happen to use verbix conjugator Hungarian: I just found out they have three errors (which I just reported): Indicative present indefinite 2nd ps singular is festesz (not festsz), 2nd ps pl is festetek (not festtek), 3rd ps pl is festenek (not festnek)

[MrtonPolgr]

Verbix is completely unreliable - it doesn't use the actual forms but tries to apply perceived patterns to any given input. Apparently, it doesn't do that too well either.

[VanWeasel]

Is the answer 'You are painted by the artists' also correct?

[jsiehler]

Sure, the two sentences mean about the same thing in English. The only difference between them is the voice (active vs passive). Hungarian doesn't have really have a passive voice, so both the English sentences would translate to Hungarian the same way.

If you're translating into English from Hungarian, it's probably a good idea to choose the active version whenever it's possible (and that's the way they've set this course up, as far as I can tell). SInce you can tell that "the artists" are doing the painting, you might as well make them the subject.

[GregWood15]

In keeping with some of the explanations of why my attempts at translating into Hungarian were wrong, I would expect that the correct English for this should be: "It is you that the artists are painting.". :)