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"A rossz német pincér a kilencvennyolcadik étteremnél dolgozik."
Translation:The bad German waiter works at the ninety-eighth restaurant.
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In this case, yes. But if you want to define the location, you would use the same way as you'd do in english: "Az étteremnél" -"at the restaurant" means maybe only nearby, in front of or behind the restaurant, 10 meters away from it, while "Az étteremben" - "In the restaurant" clearly states that you'll find that object/person within the premises of the service area of said businness, she/he/it belongs to that restaurant.
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So, the waiter is bad at his job, because he is nearby the restaurant's premises, "works" should be understood as a joke, and all guests waiting in the restaurant get no service? :-D
Waiter plus restaurant usually would be "-ben"?
Worker plus restaurant can be "-nel", because currently there construction site is located there? Or "-ben" if the worker is a carpenter or something like that and currently renovating that restaurant?
The waiter is bad at his job because he had a kindergarten teacher who was too busy flying to teach him the alphabet!
That's the case for most courses, I reckon. How are you supposed to learn kilencvennyolc if you you could write 98 instead?
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So far the course has accepted figures in stead of text whwn translating from Hungarian to English. Why change all of a sudden?
------ duo just accepted, "the bad german waiter works at the 98th restaurant" . . .
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And why 98 restaurants - I have to keep saying it -> The waiter is bad at this job because he had a kindergarten teacher who was too busy flying over things to teach him the alphabet!
I knew there would be an educational crisis with all the teachers flying! Now, there's proof!
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And why not by the restaurant Didn't we say that at the restaurant means az etteremben'' then etteremnel must be'' by'' not'' at'' my dear admininstrators.Please only a little bit more logic nothing else.And may be a ltitle more benevolence that is the most important thing to encourage to support the people you are teaching I was a teacher for forty years and I never did such mistakes.Sorry guys
Again I touched something which made this question cut me off without completing it.
The answer "... works by the restaurant" is not accepted, even is a correct way of "az etterremnél dolgozik" , the suffix "nél" is by.
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But not in English. To work by the restaurant means he does not work in it but maybe a couple of shops along.
No, it doesn't.
Some sentences are misleading, since we translated Rosszul vagyok (literally "I am badly") as I am sick. Because I am sick makes sense in English, but "I am badly" would be weird.
Still,
rossz = bad
rosszul = badly
beteg =sick/ill
a rossz pincér = the bad waiter
a beteg pincér = the sick waiter
