"We are looking over the tall fence and hurry over to the woman."
Translation:Átnézünk a magas kerítésen, és átsietünk a nőhöz.
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I am twice as likely to make an error translating sentences with two clauses, which makes them four times as frustrating. This skill is one of the ones I most dread. How hard would it be to break this exercise into two?
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You're using the fence as a medium for your looking. The át- prefix frequently uses the -on suffix to denote through/over/across what the action is taken.
In English, it sounds a little strange to use a continuous (looking) in the same sentence with the non-continuous verb (hurry). I think it's smoother to say, "We look over the tall fence and hurry over to the woman". Not much to do with the Hungarian version, but just a thought.
We could say "we are looking over the tall fence while hurrying to the woman," in English without sounding odd or incorrect.
In English that sentence literally means that we are looking over the fence at exactly the same moment as we are hurrying over to the woman. I suggest, "We look over the tall fence and hurry over to the woman."
Using two different tenses (looking and hurry) in the same English sentence is improper grammer. The English should say "we look over the tall fence and hurry over to the woman."
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Odasietünk was accepted. This is quite an issue with át versus oda. They can be highly interchangeable at times and sometimes Duo accepts that and sometimes not. I have just come from átsietünk az ebédlőbe where we hurry over to the dining room was the English version and odasietünk wasn't accepted. I did report it.
We look we hurry or we are looking and we are hurrying. Poor English to mix those tenses. Thanks!
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The Hungarian sentence sounds to me more like 'We are looking through the tall fence'. How would one differentiate between 'through' and 'over' in this case?