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Pages in category "Hungarian words and phrases" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Borbély; C.
Hungarian has 2 forms which can be added to the verb stem to modify the meaning. These are sometimes referred to as "infixes", but they are not true infixes because they are not inserted inside another morpheme. -hat-/-het-has a modal meaning of permission or opportunity, e.g. beszélek "I speak", beszélhetek "I may speak" or "I am allowed to ...
Hungarian orthography (Hungarian: helyesírás, lit. 'correct writing') consists of rules defining the standard written form of the Hungarian language.It includes the spelling of lexical words, proper nouns and foreign words in themselves, with suffixes, and in compounds, as well as the hyphenation of words, punctuation, abbreviations, collation (alphabetical ordering), and other information ...
A woman speaking Hungarian A man speaking Hungarian. Hungarian, or Magyar (magyar nyelv, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈɲɛlv] ⓘ), is a Uralic language of the Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries.
But the Hungarian friss comes from the German frisch, in general with the same meaning (fresh). goulash From gulyás, a type of stew known in Hungarian as gulyás. In Hungary, 'gulyásleves' is a soup dish; leves meaning soup. Gulyás also means 'herdsman' dealing with cattle, as the noun gulya is the Hungarian word for
Hungarian also uses a singular noun when the possessor is plural but the thing possessed is singular, e.g. a fejünk ("our heads" or "each-one-of-us's head", where each person has one head: English speakers might colloquially say "each of our heads", even though taken literally this could only be said by a multi-headed person).
Hungarian grammar is the grammar of Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language that is spoken mainly in Hungary and in parts of its seven neighboring countries. Hungarian is a highly agglutinative language which uses various affixes , mainly suffixes , to change the meaning of words and their grammatical function.
It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian ciao (which also comes from the slave meaning through Venetian s'ciavo). [1] The salutation is spelled servus in German, [2] Bavarian, Slovak, [3] Romanian [4] and Czech. [5] In Rusyn and Ukrainian it is spelled сервус, in the Cyrillic alphabet.