"Are you a sales lady or a secretary?"
Translation:Ön eladó vagy titkárnő?
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Don't you add "nő" after eladó too if you want to insist on her being a woman?
How can I know if you is to translate with te or ön? In English it is the same word. So both possibilities should be accepted.
525
I typed:
Ön vagy eladó egy titkárnő?
Please, is the verb, "vagy," really in the wrong place that way?
Or does "vagy" mean "or" here, and I should have left out that "egy"? And deleted "vagy" as a verb?
Ön ( egy ) eladó vagy ( egy ) titkárnő? "Vagy" serves as a linking word in this case.
Bitte schön!
By the way, since "Ön" is formal, and uses the third person conjugation, and "vagy" is informal, and is second person conjugation, "vagy" must mean "or".
But we can make it more confusing:
"Te eladó vagy vagy titkárnő?"
If that is not enough:
"Te vagy eladó vagy vagy titkárnő vagy".
1st "vagy": either
2nd "vagy": (you) are
3rd "vagy": or
4th "vagy": (you) are
- 525
Dear vvsey:
Your reply has no "reply" button (?), so I'll just reply here: I've been seeing a few things like that here in Hungarian. My! Fun stuff! There is in English: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
That is:
Buffalo [from the N.Y. city--adjective]
buffalo [the animal--noun, plural]
[that]
Buffalo [from the N.Y. city--adjective]
buffalo [the animal--noun, plural]
buffalo [fool, confuse--verb]
buffalo [fool, confuse--verb]
Buffalo [from the N.Y. city--adjective]
buffalo [the animal--noun, plural].
So I am not sure why the egy is left out in one case and not in the other...and why in the sentence with the one "egy" there is no "egy" in the second part? How do I know when to use the "egy" for "a" and when to leave it out?
- 394
Eladónő vagy titkárnő vagy? Why is not accepted? In English it is the same word (You) a "te'" és az "ön".
It would be "Eladónő vagy, vagy titkárnő?" (you don't need the third "vagy".
It should be accepted though. The last word can only be the verb and by this reasoning, it's valid and also used imo.
