Possessive forms Possessive Determiners (my, your, his, her, etc.) have the same form as the Nominative form of the personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.), except for Plurar 3rd person, of which form equals to the Singular 3rd person form (ő). The usage of Possessive Determiners isn’t necessary in Hungarian because the Possessive Affices clearly define […]

usual endings English Hungarian -tion -ció -ation -áció -tia -cia -ma -ma -us -usz -ius -iusz -um -um -ium -ium -ant -áns -ent -ens examples words in bold: these words of Latin origins are solely used (or in case of the primary meaning of the English version it’s solely used in Hungarian) words without bold: […]

Generally about the origins of Hungarian language What makes Hungarian that hard to learn Pronunciation of the letters Noun cases Personal Pronouns Adjectives Conjugation I (explanation) Conjugation II (tables) Auxiliary Verbs Coverbs Possessive affixes Expressing “to have” and “there is” Personal pronouns – noun cases – possessive affixes joint table Derivation of words Negation Vocabulary Word […]

In Hungarian there are 3 words for negation: nem = no, not ne! = don’t! nincs, nincsenek = there is no, there are no (also expressing don’t have) nem If we want to negate a sentence in Hungarian, then we have to put the word nem before the verb (if there is an auxiliary verb, […]

PRONOUNCIATION It’s important to pronounce the vowels with comma accent (Á, É, Í, Ó, Ő, Ú, Ű) longer than those without it It’s important that in case of A-Á and E-É not only the length is the difference, they are also pronounced different way. E (without accent) is pronounced just like the English E in let, get, met, while É (with accent) is pronounced just like […]

I’m writing this article about my experiences in livemocha.com, which is a home page for language learners. In this home page we can also help others in learning our native language. After reviewing some works done by learners of Hungarian I realized that there are some typical mistakes that appear lot of cases. GRAMMAR Nouns […]

Summary This table is about the normal (“neutral”) word order in case of different types of sentences: type of sentence word order Hungarian English translation simple affirmative sentence 1. subject 2. time adverb 3. object 4. verb 5. adverb of place Júlia délután levelet ír a nappaliban. Julia writes a letter in the living room afternoon. yes-no […]

Sentences with coverbs Important to mention that if we add a coverb to a verb, then the “neutral” word order changes to the following: The verb goes before the object. Júlia délután megírja a levelet a nappaliban. 1. subject 2. time adverb 3. coverb+verb 4. object 5. adverb of place In case of negative sentences with coverb: the word nem goes before the verb as […]

Open questions In case of interrogative sentences first we need the interrogative word (who? what? where? when? etc.). After this the word order is absolutely different of the word order of the affirmative sentence: 1. interrogative word 2. verb 3. object 4. subject 5. adverbs of place and time neutral word order interrogative sentences Mit ír Júlia a nappaliban délután? What does […]

Hungarian language is much more flexible in the sense of word order than the Indo-European languages, especially English. The reason is the suffixes; while in English the location of a word in a sentence determines its word class (part of speech), in Hungarian the suffixes determine it. In English the word play can be subject, […]