"Az idős katona nem száll le a lóról."
Translation:The old soldier is not getting off the horse.
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"You can't make me get in one of those newfangled 'tanks'! The horse and saber will make a comeback! You'll see!"
And yet, it won't take "The elderly soldier doesn't get down from the horse." Report!!
Because "get off" is the correct expression for "leszáll" from a bigger-than-car sized vehicle or public transportation device/animal.
With movement involved (besides various other slang meanings) "Get down" would mean either: - Throw yourself to the ground (as Schwarzenegger would say); - To move something from a higher place (get down the sugar from the top shelf); - Move yourself from a higher place (from the tree, from a horse) - so partially you were right, but for this "lejön" would be even better in hungarian - Would you say "lejön a lóról" in hungarian?
You fooled me Duo - I knew that people get down from horses, not land from them, but the hints led me to write the Duo-Hunglish " didn't land from the horse". But I claim that my second attempt "didn't get down from the horse" is ok, despite being marked wrong.
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The problem with your sentence is that it's in past tense. We're in the present here.
yes, you're right about the tense - my mistake; I was worrying too much about the soldier landing from the horse - but the model answer is a great improvement on the hint
