Questions & Answers about Az élesség és az utómunka jó.
Az is the Hungarian definite article, equivalent to the.
Hungarian has two forms:
- a before a consonant sound
- az before a vowel sound
Here both nouns begin with vowels:
- élesség
- utómunka
So you get:
- az élesség
- az utómunka
This choice depends on the following sound, not on meaning.
Because both élesség and utómunka are separate definite nouns in the coordination.
So Hungarian naturally says:
- az élesség és az utómunka
rather than using one article for both.
For an English speaker, this may feel a bit more explicit than English, but it is very normal in Hungarian to repeat the article in this kind of structure.