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Certain postpositions require the relative object to take a specific case. This is not necessarily a comprehensive list, but I’ll be going over some of these and showing how they work. Át OR Keresztül – across, throughTakes: superessive case -(o/e/ö)n Szeretnék utazni a világon át/keresztül (I would like to travel across the world) Az ablakomon
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Postpositions of location are basically what they sound like – postpositions that refer to direction or placement. This direction/location can be either toward/away from something, or static (no movement). They decline similar to the locative cases. Note that each version of these (static, toward, away) can take a possessive suffix, as explained here. English Equivalent
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We already went over some postpositions of time here. There are many other postpositions unrelated to time that I am going to go over in a series of different posts. For this post specifically, I am going to show how to add possessive suffixes to postpositions and how to use them in sentences. It is
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Coverbs can be confusing, especially when there are certain situations where you move them and others where you keep them with the verb. I’ve explained a bit in previous posts when the topic comes up, but I thought it would be helpful to compile a specific post about when to separate/split coverbs. I will divide
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HUNGARIAN VERB TENSES Present (Definite)Present (Indefinite)Past (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional Tense: UsageSubjunctive/Imperative (Definite & Indefinite)※ Subjunctive Tense: Usage – YOU ARE HEREImperative Tense: Usage Many languages have a subjunctive tense, and it tends to be the one that most learners (including me) struggle with. This is because there are various uses for it,
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HUNGARIAN VERB TENSES Present (Definite)Present (Indefinite)Past (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional Tense: UsageSubjunctive/Imperative (Definite & Indefinite)Subjunctive Tense: Usage※ Imperative Tense: Usage – YOU ARE HERE As mentioned previously, the subjunctive and imperative tenses are conjugated the same. In this post I will be going over just the imperative version and its uses. It’s relatively
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HUNGARIAN VERB TENSES Present (Definite)Present (Indefinite)Past (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional Tense: Usage※ Subjunctive/Imperative (Definite & Indefinite) – YOU ARE HERESubjunctive Tense: UsageImperative Tense: Usage Both the Subjunctive and the Imperative conjugate the same way, so I will only be doing one set of charts. I will be going over the different uses in
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Days of the Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday hétfő kedd szerda csütörtök péntek szombat vasárnap To express time on a specific day, we use the superessive case (-(o/ö/e)n). Revisit vowel harmony if you aren’t sure which version of this suffix to add. Note: “vasárnap” does NOT take this case. It just stays
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Note: This is not a post on how to tell time in Hungarian. That will be covered in a separate entry. Expressions of time vary in the way they are formed in Hungarian. Some use cases, others take postpositions, and some don’t take anything at all. Post-positions are something we don’t really have in English,
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HUNGARIAN VERB TENSES Present (Definite)Present (Indefinite)Past (Definite & Indefinite)Conditional (Definite & Indefinite)※ Conditional Tense: Usage – YOU ARE HERESubjunctive/Imperative (Definite & Indefinite)Subjunctive Tense: UsageImperative Tense: Usage Posts to Review First: Conditional Tense – Conjugation Past Tense – Conjugation If you aren’t familiar with the technical terms, the conditional tense is basically the “what if” tense,
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