"Felmegyünk az autópályára."
Translation:We are joining the motorway.
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I don't see how "felmegyünk" means "we join". Anyone have any thoughts on that? Also, is "We are going up to the motorway" an acceptable translation?
656
Thanks for the explanation. I'm going to file this one under "idiomatic expressions".
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A lot of learners do not come from English speaking countries. I want to learn Hungarian expressions and as long as it is clear what is meant, I do not bother about special English expressions
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Driving/going 'UP onto the motorway' would be quite common in English also, at least in English, English
It is a common way of explaining the action of driving onto the motorway in the UK, I think the best way of explaining it is that you are joining the motorists already driving on the motorway, so you and your car are becoming part of the (usually) bigger flow of traffic on a bigger type of road. Hope this helps? Another comment says that you can join a club/group, but not a motorway, but if you think of it this way, you are joining a group of other motorists who are also driving on the motorway.
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I am not sure I am right but I think it should say we MERGE onto the motorway.
I think Felmegyunk means "we go down away" and autopalyara means onto the motorway. So I picture us driving down onto the motorway and in western North American I think we would say "we merge onto to motorway."
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To answer peoples questions about the use of the word "highway", this is too general an expression: its any kind of major road open to all traffic. An "autopalya" is quite specific: a limited access high-speed road (gyorsforgalmi ut), with legal restrictions on the kinds of traffic that can use it, like an Interstate (US) or Motorway (UK/Eire). A main road has different terms like fo:ut or orsza'gosu't.
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In American English one would say I get on the motorway (BTY we don't use motorway). I large road connecting multiple states would be an Interstate (highway). A smaller road conntecting large towns or cites would be a highway