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Do these adjective+noun connections sound good/natural or should I use other words? az öreg nő - the old woman a barátságos rendőr - the friendly police officer a szorgalmas tanuló - the hard-working pupil/schoolchild a kedves tanárnő - the nice (female) teacher az udvarias szállodai alkalmazott - the polite hotel employee a rohadt diák - the lazy (university) student Thanks for your help!

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Do these adjective+noun connections sound good/natural or should I use other words?

az öreg nő - the old woman
a barátságos rendőr - the friendly police officer
a szorgalmas tanuló - the hard-working pupil/schoolchild
a kedves tanárnő - the nice (female) teacher
az udvarias szállodai alkalmazott - the polite hotel employee
a rohadt diák - the lazy (university) student

Thanks for your help!

1. If you'd like to be more polite instead of 'nő' could use 'hölgy'
2. ok
3. in this context I‘d rather suggest 'diák' but the original is ok too.
4. If you want to emphasize that she is indirect too then you can say 'közvetlen' additionally
5. ok but I’d rather specify the range of duties in the hotel (receptionist: recepciós, waiter: pincér(nő) etc)
6. 'rohadt' literally means rotten but hungarians rather use it to express that sy is not fair, thus agree that literally translated 'lusta' is ok
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Hi Anni! All remarks in previous comments and corrections were OK, but for "the old woman" in Hungarian I'd say "az idős hölgy" instead, since it sounds much more polite.
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Do these adjective+noun connections sound good/natural or should I use other words?

az öreg nő - the old woman
a barátságos rendőr - the friendly police officer
a szorgalmas tanuló - the hard-working pupil/schoolchild
a kedves tanárnő - the nice (female) teacher
az udvarias szállodai alkalmazott - the polite hotel employee
a rohadt lusta diák  hallgató - the lazy (university) student (the word "lazy" transaltes to "lusta", and while "diák" usually means "student", we prefer to use "hallgató" for a university student)

Thanks for your help!
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lazy = lusta "Rohadt" is used when we want to say something bad about someone/something. "Diák" is fine for university students, although it is mainly used for high school students.
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Super, thanks!

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