"Ennek az iskolának a diákjai okosak."
Translation:The students of this school are smart.
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Im a bit confused as to why "this school's students are smart" isnt correct. could someone enlighten me? :)
ahh okay happy to hear that. as a native german speaker this is how it feels "right". happened with many other sentences too. thanks a ton jsiehler, youre a big help!! :)
-------- duo just accepted: this school's students are smart . . .
Big 29 dec 18
not exactly the same sentence
Like "I have a black dog" (Van egy fekete kutyám) and "My dog is black" (A kutyám fekete.) are not the same
Yes, I agree with you and they're not the same. The students of this school are smart implies that all of them are smart. This school has smart students might mean that they're all smart or only some of them. A fair point and the language in Hungarian is descriptive rather than possessive.
It's like the question you asked about kert earlier: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/18458780
The 3rd person plural is like the 3rd person singular. Some nouns that end in a consonant need a -j- in the possessive ending, and some don't.