This video is excellent, helped me in exactly what I'm struggling with right now and it's very straight to the point and enlightening. I figured out that we have not much material about Hungarian word order and emphasis on RUclips and your didactic is very good, that's why this video is quite unique. Thank you very much, hope you keep this work and have success with this channel! Now I am going to share it with everyone. Szia!
This was excellent and very useful so don't feel you need to apologize for "giving us too much." You are an excellent teacher and explain even the more difficult topics very clearly. Thank you so much.
Thank you for making this! I started learning Hungarian a few days ago, because I hardly know anything about my Hungarian great grandfather (Edit: and my Hungarian great great grandfather, who got stuck in the US during WW2, and stayed, which is why I am in the US now!), and this is a way for me to connect to him. I took lots of notes, and I understand much more than I did before. Köszönöm szépen!
I am so happy that I discovered your channel !! Last month I started to learn Hungarian as an experiment but found it hard to find good content on youtube. Until now.... Your method of teaching and your videos are just excellent and very helpful. On top of that you have a very pleasant voice and talk at a perfect speed. It´s a pleasure to listen to you. Even the podcasts that I am not able to understand (yet) I hope you are successful with your channel ! All the best !
Glad to hear that. Make sure to stick around because I am planning to make more grammar related videos in the near future, covering basic suffixes and verb conjugation.
This video is great. Hungarian Grammar seems pretty easy based on how you explained it. Similar to Japanese but different. I love how the word order works. I like how flexible it is and how it can carry different meanings based on what you want to emphasize.
this was so helpful! i've found this topic really confusing before, but you explained it very clearly. köszönöm :) one video i'd love to see is some common hungarian idioms (like ones that people actually use haha)
I've just discovered your channel and it's nagyon király! Thank you for the video! It doesn't bother me if the grammar videos are long once I take it as a class and not as an entertainment video. Keep going bro! Viszlat!
köszenem szepen, this is an excellent explanation for split verbs. In my long quest and tries to learn the Hungarian language this was the first explanation for understanding the system. Thanks so much
köszönöm szépen. Nagyon hasznos volt. Detaching and switching the verbal prefixes really takes a lot of practice! Have you seen the recent Jan and Lucas teaching videos? I think that the building block style works well. e.g. "How do you say?...." Even though Lucas is teaching Russian/Spanish/French, I can still use the format to practice Hungarian. I wonder if you might do some Hungarian lessons in that format. i.e. make the viewer work as a student.
Thank you very much for the suggestions. I know Jan and Lucas, I am also following them. That channel deserves more subscribers. I will consider it and will try to experiment with a similar video. Let's see how it works out. Good luck with your studies.
Hello and thank you so very much, közönom szepán kyvanok for your channel. I'm struggling with ban van, things like the book is in the library, or I am outside the library. Basically I'm struggling with where in earth I am in Hungarian. No rush, much appreciated. Szia!
The word order in Hungarian is almost free. The article and adjective must come before the noun to which they belong. Everything else depends on the importance of the message. The first term in the sentence is the most important, the last term is the least important. For example, if the object is the most important word in the sentence, then it will be the first word, if it is not essential, then the last word, so the object can be anywhere in the sentence. So how do you know which word is the object in the sentence? From the fact that the word is in the accustive case. This ensures that the speaker can speak freely and can express nuanced differences with the same words that a fixed word order would make impossible. This makes the language expressive. So the Hungarian word order: First most important phrase in the sentence, second most important phrase in the sentence, third most important phrase in the sentence, ... , least important phrase in the sentence.
Hi, verbs that express "motion" or "existence" cannot be conjugated with the definite form. Purely Intransitive Verbs never take a direct object because they answer a question like where?, when?, how?, or how long? If it answers ( Hol / Hova ?, Mikor ?, Hogy/ Hogyan?, Meddig ?) ------> no direct object ------> indefinite conjugation "megy", "jön",... ( to go, to come,...) are always conjugated with the indefinite form ("vagyok", "megyek", "jövök" ... ) because the lack of a direct object. Existence ( "van" " lenni") is something that happens rather than something that someone can do. ("not doable") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Action verbs that express "doable activity" are conjugated with a) definite form if you have a definite direct object. ( Definite articles, Proper - and Personal nouns, Reflective - , Reciprocal - and Possessive pronouns make definite direct objects) b) indefinite form if you have an indefinite direct object. ( Indefinite articles, Numbers, No article before the object +t, Indefinite - and Question pronouns make indefinite direct objects) Analysis: 1. ) Do you have a direct object ? * If it answers ( Kit ?, Mit ?, Kiket ?, Miket? ) , so object (= noun )+ t is present------> direct object (Tip: Object translates to " Tárgy " in hungarian. So " It's t for tárgy ! ") ( Who ? What ? Whom ? ) 2. ) Is it definite / indefinite ? (Tip: Objects are most likely to be nouns. So check articles first ! Is there one ? What kind is it ? Word order ? Not lucky? : - Is it a Proper-, or Personal noun ?,... ( Budapest +et, Magyarország +ot, Péter +t, Kata +'t,...) Upper case ? - Is it an indefinite pronoun? ,... (vala + ki/mi +t, - some...one/thing - Which group is it ? .... bár + ki/mi + t - who / what...ever - Does it feel like indefinite ? 🙂 akár + ki/mi +t - any....one/ thing minden + ki +t - everyone minden + t - everything .... ) if object = infinitive ( verb + ni) ---> indefinite conjugation ( Tudok számolni. - I can calculate. Tudok úszni. - I can swim. ) { As I know how to do something} Solution a) ----> definite direct object -----> definite conjugation Examples: ( Látom a macskát. - I can see the cat. Látom a macskámat. - I can see my cat. Látom azt a három macskát. - I can see those three cats. Látom az enyémet - I can see mine....) Solution b) ----> indefinite direct object --> indefinite conjugation Examples: ( Látok egy macskát. - I can see a cat. Látok három macskát. - I can see three cats. Macskát látok. - No article ! Látok valami(féle) macskát. - I can see some (kind of) cat. Látok néhány macskát. - I can see a few ("some") cats.,....) Mit látok ? - What do I see ? * It does not answer ( Kit ?, Mit ?, Kiket ?, Miket? ) ------> No direct object ------> indefinite conjugation ( As examples given on the top ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exception: when the subject is " Én" , and the object is " Te" or " Ti". In this case it is neither. Example: "látni" [Inf.] - to see root: Lát [verb] ( Present tense, First Person) (Én) Látom magamat - I can see myself (Én) Látlak téged - I can see you [ (Én) Látom Önt - I can see you ( formal) ]* (Én) Látom őt - I can see him/her (Én) Látom magunkat - i can see ourselves (Én) Látlak titeket - I can see you [ (Én) Látom Önöket - I can see you ( formal) ]* (Én) Látom őket - I can see them *Note that in the case of "formal you" the conjugation follows rule (a) [ definite ]. ( Ön +t, Önök + et, so +t is present ! ) On the other hand in "I/2 and II/2 informal" it is "verb + lak" or "verb + lek" according to vowel harmony. ( Téged ,....+t is not present, however Titeket +t is sort of present) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tud [verb] inf.: tudni - can (As to know how to), to know [ Tudom (ezt/ azt) - I know it / that ] számol [verb] inf. számolni - to calculate úszik [verb] inf. úszni - to swim ( In case of verbs ending - ik we get rid of -ik and substitute - ni , rather than adding it to create infinitives ! ) macska [noun] - cat három [number] - three , 3 a/ az - [definite article] - the azok / ezek [definite article] - those / these egy - [indefinite article] - a / an vala-..., bár-..., akár-...., minden-.... [indefinite pronouns] Budapest [proper noun] Péter [proper noun]
Hi. Well done on the video. There is a point in Hungarian grammar that I haven't been able to find an explanation for. It is something like the following: vannak-e. The -e is attached to the end of a verb, and it usually seems to be a question, but I can't really work out what role the -e plays and when it is needed. Could you please help me understand this? Thanks for reading.
I’ve been learning hungarian for about a few months now (intensely) with a help of my friends and this is one thing I literally cannot understand! No matter how hard I try, I cannot get over this! It’s so hard and the thing is, I know so much words but I can’t put them in a sentence! The words change when they get put in a sentence and it’s so confusing.. please if anyone can; teach me hungarian! 😅
Hiányzik, hogy János ma reggel iskolába megy, (nem dolgozni.) Rosszul hangsúlyoz a tanár úr, mert a fontos szót kell csak hangsúlyosan ejteni, utána az igét nem.
The meaning is similar. But the “amikor” you can’t use when you want to ask something. You have to use “MIKOR”. Mikor is commonly used in question sentences when you are asking about when the activity happened like: When will you go home? = Mikor mész haza? The “AMIKOR” you can use just when you state something. You use “amikor” when you know clearly “when gonna happen something”. Amikor used in positive sentences, in past tense it's similar to "when" in past continuous sentences in english, like "Amikor hazaértem, anya főzött." it can express activities that happened nearly at the same time or at the same time and in present tense it can express a habit, like: "Amikor teát iszom, cukrot rakok bele." When i will finish my work. = Amikor befejezem a munkámat. You can also use mikor in positive sentences but it's more unnatural i think :)
I've tried many times to learn Magyarol because my father was born there. My mom's parents are from there too. My parents never taught me the language even though they speak it fluently. Its very frustrating. When I visited my family in Hungary I could barely understand anything.
Well, you can start by learning the basics, no need to get to native-like fluency. Step by step and you can still experience some sense of achievement.
Nem megyek be. = I am not going in. Nem bemegyek. = I am not going in. (but I am going somewhere just not in.) Be nem megyek. = I am not going in. (or somewhere else, but not in at all).
This video is excellent, helped me in exactly what I'm struggling with right now and it's very straight to the point and enlightening. I figured out that we have not much material about Hungarian word order and emphasis on RUclips and your didactic is very good, that's why this video is quite unique. Thank you very much, hope you keep this work and have success with this channel! Now I am going to share it with everyone. Szia!
Köszönöm szépen!!
Hungarian seems to me like a very beautiful and interesting language
I’m about to find out!
It is but that still doesn't make it easy to learn 😭
This was excellent and very useful so don't feel you need to apologize for "giving us too much." You are an excellent teacher and explain even the more difficult topics very clearly. Thank you so much.
Nagyon szépen köszönöm !
Thank you for making this! I started learning Hungarian a few days ago, because I hardly know anything about my Hungarian great grandfather (Edit: and my Hungarian great great grandfather, who got stuck in the US during WW2, and stayed, which is why I am in the US now!), and this is a way for me to connect to him. I took lots of notes, and I understand much more than I did before. Köszönöm szépen!
That's awesome! If you ever need help, we can practice hungarian together😊
I am so happy that I discovered your channel !!
Last month I started to learn Hungarian as an experiment but found it hard to find good content on youtube. Until now....
Your method of teaching and your videos are just excellent and very helpful.
On top of that you have a very pleasant voice and talk at a perfect speed.
It´s a pleasure to listen to you. Even the podcasts that I am not able to understand (yet)
I hope you are successful with your channel !
All the best !
Glad to hear that. Make sure to stick around because I am planning to make more grammar related videos in the near future, covering basic suffixes and verb conjugation.
@@hungryforlanguages6864 várom még
Wow, This is so helpful! Köszönöm szépen!
This video is great. Hungarian Grammar seems pretty easy based on how you explained it. Similar to Japanese but different. I love how the word order works. I like how flexible it is and how it can carry different meanings based on what you want to emphasize.
this was so helpful! i've found this topic really confusing before, but you explained it very clearly. köszönöm :)
one video i'd love to see is some common hungarian idioms (like ones that people actually use haha)
Very useful, I love how direct and to the point and well explained the material is. Very impressive. ! Thank you!
Tökéletesen magyaráztad ezt a videót, köszi szépen ^^
wow this is so helpful!! Thank you!!
Здорово, интересное видео
This is very helpful, especially your explanations on verb prefixes. Köszönöm szépen!
Cool! In Turkish emphasis comes before the last element of sentence but this system in Hungarian also makes sense.
شكرا جزيلا
I've just discovered your channel and it's nagyon király! Thank you for the video!
It doesn't bother me if the grammar videos are long once I take it as a class and not as an entertainment video. Keep going bro! Viszlat!
Thank you very much for the kind words. This kind of feedback helps me a lot. Sok sikert!
Excelente ! Tus videos realmente son de mucha ayuda ! Gracias
köszenem szepen, this is an excellent explanation for split verbs. In my long quest and tries to learn the Hungarian language this was the first explanation for understanding the system. Thanks so much
It was super helpful!!! köszönöm szépen!!!
Great video. Very clear explanation.
Thank you
köszönöm szépen. Nagyon hasznos volt.
Detaching and switching the verbal prefixes really takes a lot of practice!
Have you seen the recent Jan and Lucas teaching videos? I think that the building block style works well. e.g. "How do you say?...."
Even though Lucas is teaching Russian/Spanish/French, I can still use the format to practice Hungarian.
I wonder if you might do some Hungarian lessons in that format. i.e. make the viewer work as a student.
Thank you very much for the suggestions. I know Jan and Lucas, I am also following them. That channel deserves more subscribers. I will consider it and will try to experiment with a similar video. Let's see how it works out. Good luck with your studies.
Thank you so much
Your English sounds perfect, and it also helps a lot.
Hello and thank you so very much, közönom szepán kyvanok for your channel. I'm struggling with ban van, things like the book is in the library, or I am outside the library.
Basically I'm struggling with where in earth I am in Hungarian.
No rush, much appreciated.
Szia!
Tus videos son excelentes!
Nagyon szeretem a magyar nyelvet!
You are completely right... I should subscribe...
Nice video, thank you :)
Jo nagyon jo és köszönön szepén, magyarol nagyon hard van, en beszélek spanyolul.igen
can you explain me the difference and when to use definite and indefinite conjugation? thanks.
I will try and do a video on it. Stay tuned.
Nagyon jó😉
This was so helpful! My level is intermediate and it helped me a lot in clarifying some things... THANKS !!
Glad that you found it helpful. Please, stay tuned, I will be uploading more grammar videos in the near future.
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The word order in Hungarian is almost free. The article and adjective must come before the noun to which they belong. Everything else depends on the importance of the message. The first term in the sentence is the most important, the last term is the least important. For example, if the object is the most important word in the sentence, then it will be the first word, if it is not essential, then the last word, so the object can be anywhere in the sentence. So how do you know which word is the object in the sentence? From the fact that the word is in the accustive case. This ensures that the speaker can speak freely and can express nuanced differences with the same words that a fixed word order would make impossible. This makes the language expressive. So the Hungarian word order: First most important phrase in the sentence, second most important phrase in the sentence, third most important phrase in the sentence, ... , least important phrase in the sentence.
Why does megyem vagyom etc not exist and how do I know if the definite form exists or not
Hi, verbs that express "motion" or "existence" cannot be conjugated with the definite form. Purely Intransitive Verbs never take a direct object because they answer a question like where?, when?, how?, or how long?
If it answers ( Hol / Hova ?, Mikor ?, Hogy/ Hogyan?, Meddig ?) ------> no direct object ------> indefinite conjugation
"megy", "jön",... ( to go, to come,...) are always conjugated with the indefinite form ("vagyok", "megyek", "jövök" ... ) because the lack of a direct object.
Existence ( "van" " lenni") is something that happens rather than something that someone can do. ("not doable")
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Action verbs that express "doable activity" are conjugated with
a) definite form if you have a definite direct object. ( Definite articles, Proper - and Personal nouns, Reflective - , Reciprocal - and Possessive pronouns make definite direct objects)
b) indefinite form if you have an indefinite direct object. ( Indefinite articles, Numbers, No article before the object +t, Indefinite - and Question pronouns make indefinite direct objects)
Analysis:
1. ) Do you have a direct object ?
* If it answers ( Kit ?, Mit ?, Kiket ?, Miket? ) , so object (= noun )+ t is present------> direct object (Tip: Object translates to " Tárgy " in hungarian. So " It's t for tárgy ! ")
( Who ? What ? Whom ? )
2. ) Is it definite / indefinite ? (Tip: Objects are most likely to be nouns. So check articles first ! Is there one ? What kind is it ? Word order ?
Not lucky? : - Is it a Proper-, or Personal noun ?,... ( Budapest +et, Magyarország +ot, Péter +t, Kata +'t,...) Upper case ?
- Is it an indefinite pronoun? ,... (vala + ki/mi +t, - some...one/thing
- Which group is it ? .... bár + ki/mi + t - who / what...ever
- Does it feel like indefinite ? 🙂 akár + ki/mi +t - any....one/ thing
minden + ki +t - everyone
minden + t - everything
.... )
if object = infinitive ( verb + ni) ---> indefinite conjugation ( Tudok számolni. - I can calculate. Tudok úszni. - I can swim. ) { As I know how to do something}
Solution a)
----> definite direct object -----> definite conjugation Examples: ( Látom a macskát. - I can see the cat. Látom a macskámat. - I can see my cat.
Látom azt a három macskát. - I can see those three cats. Látom az enyémet - I can see mine....)
Solution b)
----> indefinite direct object --> indefinite conjugation Examples: ( Látok egy macskát. - I can see a cat. Látok három macskát. - I can see three cats.
Macskát látok. - No article !
Látok valami(féle) macskát. - I can see some (kind of) cat.
Látok néhány macskát. - I can see a few ("some") cats.,....)
Mit látok ? - What do I see ?
* It does not answer ( Kit ?, Mit ?, Kiket ?, Miket? ) ------> No direct object ------> indefinite conjugation ( As examples given on the top )
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Exception: when the subject is " Én" , and the object is " Te" or " Ti". In this case it is neither.
Example: "látni" [Inf.] - to see
root: Lát [verb]
( Present tense, First Person)
(Én) Látom magamat - I can see myself
(Én) Látlak téged - I can see you [ (Én) Látom Önt - I can see you ( formal) ]*
(Én) Látom őt - I can see him/her
(Én) Látom magunkat - i can see ourselves
(Én) Látlak titeket - I can see you [ (Én) Látom Önöket - I can see you ( formal) ]*
(Én) Látom őket - I can see them
*Note that in the case of "formal you" the conjugation follows rule (a) [ definite ]. ( Ön +t, Önök + et, so +t is present ! )
On the other hand in "I/2 and II/2 informal" it is "verb + lak" or "verb + lek" according to vowel harmony. ( Téged ,....+t is not present, however Titeket +t is sort of present)
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tud [verb] inf.: tudni - can (As to know how to), to know [ Tudom (ezt/ azt) - I know it / that ]
számol [verb] inf. számolni - to calculate
úszik [verb] inf. úszni - to swim ( In case of verbs ending - ik we get rid of -ik and substitute - ni , rather than adding it to create infinitives ! )
macska [noun] - cat
három [number] - three , 3
a/ az - [definite article] - the
azok / ezek [definite article] - those / these
egy - [indefinite article] - a / an
vala-..., bár-..., akár-...., minden-.... [indefinite pronouns]
Budapest [proper noun]
Péter [proper noun]
@@csabasalzinger4566 vágyom veled csaba
Hi. Well done on the video. There is a point in Hungarian grammar that I haven't been able to find an explanation for. It is something like the following:
vannak-e.
The -e is attached to the end of a verb, and it usually seems to be a question, but I can't really work out what role the -e plays and when it is needed. Could you please help me understand this? Thanks for reading.
I will get back to this question, maybe even cover it briefly in a video. Stay tuned
i would the video very helpful .
stilusos
I’ve been learning hungarian for about a few months now (intensely) with a help of my friends and this is one thing I literally cannot understand! No matter how hard I try, I cannot get over this! It’s so hard and the thing is, I know so much words but I can’t put them in a sentence! The words change when they get put in a sentence and it’s so confusing.. please if anyone can; teach me hungarian! 😅
Szuper!
Hiányzik, hogy János ma reggel iskolába megy, (nem dolgozni.)
Rosszul hangsúlyoz a tanár úr, mert a fontos szót kell csak hangsúlyosan ejteni, utána az igét nem.
What's the difference between mikor and amikor?
The meaning is similar. But the “amikor” you can’t use when you want to ask something. You have to use “MIKOR”. Mikor is commonly used in question sentences when you are asking about when the activity happened like: When will you go home? = Mikor mész haza?
The “AMIKOR” you can use just when you state something. You use “amikor” when you know clearly “when gonna happen something”.
Amikor used in positive sentences, in past tense it's similar to "when" in past continuous sentences in english, like "Amikor hazaértem, anya főzött." it can express activities that happened nearly at the same time or at the same time and in present tense it can express a habit, like: "Amikor teát iszom, cukrot rakok bele."
When i will finish my work. = Amikor befejezem a munkámat.
You can also use mikor in positive sentences but it's more unnatural i think :)
I listen to the alphabet 3 times and remember 90 % .
I am a native hungarian and I still dont know how this language works
Why is it Be tudok menni, but Be kell mennEM?
_kell_ can't be conjugated in this context, so you have to conjugate _menni._ But _be kell menni_ is also correct.
mennem means 'I' have to go in. not someone else
I've tried many times to learn Magyarol because my father was born there. My mom's parents are from there too. My parents never taught me the language even though they speak it fluently. Its very frustrating. When I visited my family in Hungary I could barely understand anything.
Well, you can start by learning the basics, no need to get to native-like fluency. Step by step and you can still experience some sense of achievement.
I'm Hungarian megszencségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseid
ISTENEM
A magyarban a szórend attól függ, melyik szó a fontos.
Nem megyek be. = I am not going in. Nem bemegyek. = I am not going in. (but I am going somewhere just not in.) Be nem megyek. = I am not going in. (or somewhere else, but not in at all).
Kösz
A magyar nyelv nehéz
Nagyon jó😉