"Few buses are passing by the small town."

Translation: A kicsi város mellett kevés busz halad.

[turnipfish]

Why is it kicsi and not kis?

[adimarzio]

Does anyone know why "néhány" is not accepted for "few" in this case?

[JohnWeber786406]

Néhány is "some"; Kéves is "few"

[clairelanc3]

And now "by" is accepted.

[BigWayne19]

------- but not -nal . duo denied: keves a busz a kicsi varosnal halad . . .

Big 8 jan 20

[JMaxGlobal]

Either I need a little guidance with word-order, or DuoLingo is gathering alternate translations :)

I wrote, "Kevés buszok halladnak a kis város mellett." This was quickly tossed into the virtual waste-paper basket by our friendly, little Professzor Bagoly.

OK - so who is correct? And why? Are both translations alright, or is there an emphasis on the "small town" and therefore it needs to precede in Hungarian, the "few buses"?

[joanna54321]

As far as I know your word order is right, but it does need to be in the singular because of kevés: 'Kevés busz halad a kis város mellett', so that's probably the issue that it's picking up. Also it marked me wrong for using kis instead of kicsi for this sentence, but I think that's just because it isn't in the database yet so I've reported that.