Questions & Answers about Mióta nem működik a hálózat?
What does Mióta mean in this sentence?
Mióta means since when? or for how long?, depending on context.
In a question like Mióta nem működik a hálózat?, it asks about the starting point of the problem:
- Since when has the network not been working?
- idiomatically in English: How long has the network been down?
So mióta is used when you want to know from what time something has been true.
Why is the sentence in the present tense when English often uses has not been working?
Hungarian often uses the present tense where English uses the present perfect.
So:
- nem működik = literally is not working / does not work
- but with mióta, the whole sentence naturally corresponds to English has not been working
This is very common. Hungarian does not need a special perfect form here. The time relationship is understood from mióta.
What does nem működik mean exactly?