"A sovány fiú odakiabál a nőhöz."

Translation: The skinny boy shouts there at the woman.

[GerSzej]

shouts there to the woman was rejected. It may sound strange in English, but similar sentences required "there". Then, you do not yell to someone but at someone. reported

[DoktorVirag]

Actually we do yell to someone. If I am yelling at someone, its probably out of anger. If I yell to someone I am merely trying to get their attention.

[TobiasSchoenberg]

If this is shouting 'to', what is shouting 'at'?

[SchlachterZoltan]

A nőre kiabál.

[Martha94435]

"Shouts at" is a very, very different thing than "odakiabál -hez/hoz/höz". Odakiabál is just trying to make himself heard. *Rákiabál _-ra/re* would be closer to "shouts at".

[-BigWayne19-]

-------- i'd prefer that he shouts over to the woman. 'course in english i'd expect the rest of the sentence, that he shouts SOMETHING over to the woman . . .

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[ErdemYlmaz17]

What is the directional meaning of oda here. If there were no 'oda', what would have changed in the sentence ?

[jzsuzsi]

odakiabál a nőhöz

it shows that the boy is somewhere and the woman is far from him, so he shouts there, to that direction.

But this is not a very good or natural sentence.

[Gabor111594]

I would translate this as “The thin boy shouts over to the woman”, certainly not at which would be “rákiabál a nőre”.