A sütő még meleg, ezért a gyerek nem megy oda.

In Hungarian, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense when the subject is third person and the predicate is an adjective or noun.

So:

A sütő még meleg
literally looks like
The oven still warm

but it means
The oven is still warm

This is completely normal Hungarian. You would use a form of lenni only in other tenses, or in certain special structures.

Here még means still.

So még meleg = still warm.

This word is very common, but its meaning depends on context. It can also mean things like yet or more in other sentences. In this sentence, the idea is that the oven was warm before, and it continues to be warm now.

A is the singular definite article, meaning the.

So:

a sütő = the oven
a gyerek = the child

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

a before consonant sounds
az before vowel sounds

For example:

a gyerek
az alma

Also, Hungarian articles do not show gender, because Hungarian nouns do not have grammatical gender.

Ezért means therefore, for this reason, or so.

It connects the two parts of the sentence:

A sütő még meleg, ezért a gyerek nem megy oda.

The logic is:

the oven is still warm → for that reason → the child does not go there

It is a very common connector in Hungarian for cause and result.

This is an important Hungarian grammar point.

The basic affirmative form is:

odamegy = goes there / goes over there / approaches

Here oda acts like a verbal prefix, often called a preverb.

But when the verb is negated, the preverb usually separates and moves after the verb:

odamegy → nem megy oda

So:

A gyerek odamegy. = The child goes over there.
A gyerek nem megy oda. = The child does not go over there.

This same pattern happens with many other verbs:

bemegy → nem megy be
kimegy → nem megy ki
leül → nem ül le

Oda is a directional word. It means to there, over there, or to that place.

Because the verb is about movement, oda does not just mean location; it means movement toward a place.

So:

megy oda = goes there / goes over there

In this sentence, oda refers back to the oven, so the natural English meaning is something like:

the child does not go there
or more naturally
the child does not go near it / does not go over to it

Related words:

itt = here
ide = to here
ott = there
oda = to there

Yes.

You could say:

A gyerek nem megy a sütőhöz.

That means The child does not go to the oven.

The difference is that a sütőhöz names the place again explicitly, while oda means there and refers back to something already mentioned.

So oda sounds more natural if the oven has just been mentioned, as it has here. Hungarian often avoids repeating the noun if the reference is already clear.

Not completely. Hungarian word order is flexible, and different orders can shift emphasis.

This sentence is a natural neutral version:

A sütő még meleg, ezért a gyerek nem megy oda.

You could also hear:

A sütő még meleg, a gyerek ezért nem megy oda.

Both are possible, but the emphasis changes slightly.

What is especially important here is the negated verb pattern:

nem megy oda

Because of the negation, oda stays after the verb.

Yes. In Hungarian, the present tense often covers both simple present and near-future meaning, depending on context.

So nem megy oda can mean:

doesn’t go there
or
won’t go there

In this sentence, English might naturally interpret it as won’t go near it, because the oven is still warm. Hungarian does not need a special future form here.

A few pronunciation points here are very useful:

s in Hungarian is pronounced like English sh
So sütő starts with a sh sound.

ü is a front rounded vowel, similar to German ü or French u.

ő is a long version of ö.

gy is a single soft consonant. English does not have an exact match, but it can sound a bit like the dy sound in duke for many speakers.

Very rough guides:

sütő ≈ shü-tő
gyerek ≈ dye-rek
ezért ≈ eh-zayrt

These are only approximations, but they can help at the beginning.

Gyerek is a very common everyday word meaning child or kid.

It is neutral and extremely common in speech. In some contexts, Hungarian also uses gyermek, which can sound a bit more formal or careful.

So:

gyerek = common everyday word
gyermek = more formal or stylistically careful

In this sentence, a gyerek sounds perfectly natural.