"Nem megyünk ki, hanem visszaülünk a kanapéra."

Translation: We are not going out, but sitting back on the sofa.

[vvsey]

Btw., the "vissza" part seems to be missing from the English translation.

"Nem megyünk ki, hanem visszaülünk a kanapéra."
We are not going out, but sitting BACK down onto the sofa.

[bturbanic]

sitting "onto the sofa" is not natural English to my ear. How about "sitting back down on the sofa"?

[RyagonIV]

Yes, that would be my preferred translation, too. :)

[Krisbaudi]

Visszaülünk is still not accepted as sitting back.
I think, the "correct" translation "sitting down" is wrong. (it should be leülünk, but this is marked wrong)

[Ayame992]

We learned in school (I'm Hungarian) that if you have a word with both type of vowels the ending usually have to be low.

[Iva52893]

Actually, the best way to say it in English would probably be "we sit down on the sofa AGAIN".

[Werrettich]

Why does kanapé take the low ending ra?

[96314081311257]

E, é, i & í can be "transparent" sometimes. It means that is the last (or even the last two) syllables of a word have these vowels, the suffix might be determined based on the syllable before them. Example:

kanapé, kanapéra

júni (short for június), júniban

bolsevik, bolsevikok (this is such a silly example, sorry)

There are some cases when either can be used, such as fotel (fotelben, fotelban.)

[Werrettich]

Thank you. Are there ways to "spot" transparent vowels? Are there hints in dictionaries?

[96314081311257]

Printed dictionaries that are meant to be used by non-native Hungarian speakers should give you certain forms of words, one of them is the third person singular possessive for nouns, I believe. So the entry kanapé would look something like this:

kanapé (~k, ~t, ~ja)

Or something similar, I'm not sure what forms are actually there.

[RyagonIV]

Yes, the better dictionaries give accusative, plural, and 3rd person sing. possessive endings of nouns.

[Judit294350]

sofa = couch