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Tag: postpositions

  • [Hungarian] Postpositions with Cases

    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…

  • [Hungarian] Postpositions of Location

    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,…

  • [Hungarian] Possessive Postpositions

    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…

  • [Hungarian] Time Expressions with Postpositions

    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…