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Category: Hungarian

  • Színek magyarul : Colours in Hungarian

    PDF download: here (mediafire) 1 “vörös” is another word for red, typically darker (more of a burgundy/blood colour)

  • [Hungarian] Base Vocabulary List ~625 Words

    So I came across this post and thought it was very useful, so I decided to go through the vocabulary sheet and do the Hungarian translations (I believe they already had someone translate this, but for me it helped me more to look up the translations myself). I had my…

  • Hungarian Cheat Sheet

    A small Hungarian cheat sheet for quick reference! Please note this is more for those who have been studying Hungarian and already understand how to apply the grammar rules. Otherwise I’m afraid this won’t be much help… This also obviously doesn’t cover the exceptions to the rules above (as it…

  • [Hungarian] Dative Case: -nak/-nek

    So to continue on down the case list, I’ll be explaining the Dative case today. As far as cases go, I consider it very straightforward and simple. It essentially is used just as “to/for” would be used in English (i.e. “I give a gift TO my mother”). There are other…

  • [Translation +vocab] Miért töröd magad – Honeybeast

    I originally posted this translation some years ago, but I decided to go and add in the vocabulary like I’ve been doing with other translations lately. This is a more ‘complicated’ song, as in there are lines that can’t be directly translated without sounding strange, and it has some more…

  • [Hungarian] Accusative Case: -t, -ot, -at, -et, -öt

    Note: This post has been updated with audio clips of the example sentences spoken by a native speaker. We are currently working on updating all posts with audio examples, but this will take some time. Don’t let all the different endings worry you, there’s a very simple rule for which…

  • [Hungarian] Accusative Adjectives

    Vous pouvez trouver la version française de cette leçon ici. In the majority of cases, adjectives decline the same as nouns, however the accusative is a bit different, so we will go over that here. You can read my previous post on plural adjectives here. ADJECTIVES ENDING IN VOWELS Ending in…

  • [Hungarian] Plural Adjectives

    Vous pouvez trouver la version française de cette leçon ici. I’ll be going over adjectives in accusative in a separate post (here!), so that this doesn’t end up too horribly long. As always, if you haven’t already, please take a look at Vowel Harmony and Vowel Lengthening first. If you’re familiar with romance languages,…

  • [Hungarian] Plural Possession

    Plural possession functions the same way as singular possession, it just has different endings. You will not add the standard plural ending to nouns in this case. You would only add the endings specified here, which will indicate the noun is both plural and possessive. If you haven’t already, please go over Vowel Harmony and Vowel Lengthening so…

  • [Hungarian] Singular Possession

    To show possession in Hungarian, you just add on suffixes in the same way that you would with the typical cases. There are some exceptions, which I will explain to the best of my ability. I cover plural possession in this post. If you haven’t already, you should go over Vowel…