"Ennek az iskolának a diákjai okosak."

Translation: The students of this school are smart.

[FelixCapulet]

Im a bit confused as to why "this school's students are smart" isnt correct. could someone enlighten me? :)

[jsiehler]

It's fine. You can report it if it comes up again.

[FelixCapulet]

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!! :)

[BigWayne19]

-------- duo just accepted: this school's students are smart . . .

Big 29 dec 18

[Alia906242]

It should have been accepted

[SedatKlc]

why dont we say diákai ?

[jsiehler]

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.

[SedatKlc]

but we dont say utcajai

[jsiehler]

No, for a word that ends in a vowel you need only the -i