"A gyerekek befekszenek az ágyba és beszélgetnek."

Translation: The children lie down in the bed and chat.

[AndyL.3]

There is no "lie into the bed" in English. "Lie onto" maybe.

[KVis1]

This sentence should either be: The children get into the bed and chat. OR The children lie (are lying) in the bed and chat (are chatting).

[vvsey]

In that case: "into the bed". Because the Hungarian sentence is talking about them getting into bed, not already being there.

[dqJacO]

they "go lie down in bed and chat" -- it's not intuitive, but we need to learn to figure out how to generate correct Hungarian from correct English without filtering it through word-for-word translations of Hungarian.

[Steve313302]

British English prefers "get into bed' and "lying in bed" without the definite article unless you want to stress a specific bed. There are a lot of set expressions indicating motion that dispense with the definite article and sound very odd with them.

Go to work/school/hospital/bed etc

What time did you get to work/school/bed etc?

[GGS1964]

You allow "kids" for "gyerekek", too.

[Nab918927]

Why isn't the preverb "le" instead of "be" in this sentence? Or should I ask why is the word "down" used in the translation?

[Markus373694]

In English you "lie down" everywhere - on the ground, on the bed, on the roof.
In Hungarian you "lie down" on the ground, "lie in" the bed" and "lie on" the roof.

[Nab918927]

No, in english you lie down, on, in, under, beside, above, etc. Thanks for responding but you haven't answered my question.

Anyone else?