"This is not a coat, but pajamas."
Translation:Ez nem kabát, hanem pizsama.
October 31, 2016
8 Comments
Is it flat-out wrong to use egy here? As in: Ez nem egy kabát... I thought omission of the indefinite article was optional, not required?
October 31, 2016
Sondern? Could you clarify this? I still don't understand why you want "hanem" and not "de."
February 1, 2017
Sondern is German for "rather". When you're saying "it's not thing A, it's thing B", the proper conjunction in Hungarian is hanem as in, "it's not A, but rather it's B", or "it's not A, but instead it's B". The Hungarian conjunction de doesn't include any "rather" or "instead" meaning.
February 1, 2017
Sorry. I wrote the German translation because I know that Krisbaudi is a German native speaker.
February 1, 2017
