A kenu egyik oldala zöld.

In Hungarian, a and az are the definite articles, so here A kenu means the canoe, not a canoe.

• a is used before most consonant sounds
• az is used before vowel sounds

So:

• a kenu = the canoe
• az autó = the car

Hungarian has no separate word exactly matching English a/an in this sentence.

Kenu means canoe. It is a borrowed word, but it is completely normal in Hungarian.

In this sentence, kenu stays in its basic dictionary form because it is not being marked directly with a case ending here. Instead, possession is shown on the next word: oldala.

Egyik means something like one of, while egy simply means one or a/an.

So:

• egy oldala = one side of it / a side of it
• egyik oldala = one of its sides

In this sentence, A kenu egyik oldala zöld means specifically One of the canoe’s sides is green or more naturally One side of the canoe is green.

Using egyik makes it sound like the canoe has multiple sides, and we are talking about one particular one among them.

Oldala comes from:

• oldal = side
• -a = its

So oldala means its side.

This is a very common Hungarian possessive pattern:

• ház = house

• háza = his/her/its house

• autó = car

• autója = his/her/its car

• oldal = side
• oldala = his/her/its side

In this sentence, the possessor is a kenu (the canoe), so a kenu oldala = the canoe’s side / the side of the canoe.

That is how Hungarian normally expresses possession.

English often marks the possessor:

• the canoe’s side

Hungarian usually marks the possessed thing instead:

• a kenu oldala
• literally: the canoe its-side

So the possessed noun gets the possessive ending, not usually the possessor.

This is one of the most important structural differences between English and Hungarian.

In Hungarian, the verb to be is often omitted in the present tense when talking about third person singular or plural.

So in English you say:

• The side is green.

But in Hungarian you simply say:

• Az oldal zöld.

No separate is is needed.

This omission happens in present-tense equational/descriptive sentences like this one. But in other tenses or persons, forms of van may appear.

For example:

• Zöld vagyok. = I am green.
• Zöld vagy. = You are green.
• Az oldal zöld. = The side is green.
• Az oldal zöld volt. = The side was green.

Zöld means green, and here it is the predicate adjective: it tells us what the subject is like.

Hungarian often places the new or important information later in the sentence, and putting zöld at the end is very natural here.

The basic structure is:

• A kenu egyik oldala = the subject
• zöld = what is being said about it

So the sentence flows as:

• The canoe’s one side → green

This word order is neutral and natural.

No. Hungarian adjectives do not agree with nouns in the same way they do in many Indo-European languages.

So zöld stays zöld.

Examples:

• zöld oldal = green side
• zöld ház = green house
• zöld autók = green cars

The adjective itself does not change here for gender, and Hungarian has no grammatical gender. It also usually does not change for number in this kind of predicate use.

Yes. The whole phrase A kenu egyik oldala is the subject of the sentence.

Its head noun is oldala (its side), and the rest narrows down what side we mean:

• A kenu = the canoe
• egyik oldala = one of its sides

Together:

• A kenu egyik oldala = one side of the canoe

Then zöld tells us something about that subject.

Not exactly as the main meaning, though it is closely related.

The sentence directly means:

• One side of the canoe is green.

It focuses on the color of one side.

If you wanted to say The canoe has one green side, Hungarian would more naturally use a possession/existence structure such as:

• A kenunak van egy zöld oldala.

That version emphasizes that the canoe possesses such a side.
Your original sentence is simpler and more direct: it identifies one side and says it is green.

Here egyik works well by itself inside the possessed noun phrase: a kenu egyik oldala.

Hungarian often uses egyik without az in this kind of structure when it means one of the ... in a general sense.

You may also see az egyik in other contexts, especially when the meaning is more explicitly one of them / one particular one:

• Az egyik oldal zöld. = One of the sides is green.

But in your sentence, a kenu egyik oldala is perfectly natural and standard.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

• A kenu egyik oldala zöld
• aw KEH-noo EH-dyik OL-daw-law zöld

A few notes:

• e is usually like e in met
• u is like oo in food, but shorter unless marked long
• gy in egyik is a soft consonant, something like the d in British duke or a softened dy
• ö in zöld is like a rounded vowel that English does not have exactly; similar to German ö

Stress in Hungarian is always on the first syllable of each word:

• A KE-nu E-gyik OL-da-la ZÖLD

Yes, but changing the word order can change the emphasis.

The neutral sentence is:

• A kenu egyik oldala zöld.

If you move things around, you may highlight something different. For example:

• Zöld a kenu egyik oldala.

This still means the same basic thing, but it puts more emphasis on green.

Hungarian word order is quite flexible, but it is not random: it often reflects what is already known and what is being emphasized or focused.