When you have finished your meal in a restaurant, and you want to pay, you say "he bill, please" in English. Although it is possible to say this in Hungarian too, we normally say the Hungarian equivalent of "excuse me, I'd like to pay". Let's see these words. elnézést = ecxuse me fizetni = to…

Ez egy = this is a... ajtó, kilincs, kulcs, zár, lábtörlő Pálinkát hoztál? = have you brought pálinka?      @hunpron #hungarian #magyar #words #hunpron #pálinka #door #key #language ♬ original sound - Hungarian Pronunciation

A follower asked me to talk about the meanings of hogy.  Hogy is a short form of the question word hogyan, so it should be no surprise that hogy is used in questions like Hogy vagy? = How are you?  Hogy mondtad? = How did you say that?  Hogy is also a conjunction, i.e. a word connecting two…

A follower asked me about the word sajnálom.  While sajnálom is also a word that expresses "I am sorry", there is a clear difference when compared with bocsánat, elnézést, or ne haragudj. These three are appropriate when you have made a mistake or hurt somebody. Sajnálom expresses your empathy and…

A follower asked me to explain how we say "I'm sorry".  There are several ways of saying "I'm sorry", but now we'll talk about three.  1. Bocsánatot kérek Bocsánat is something like "forgiveness", so this sentence means "I am asking for forgiveness". It is very common only to say bocsánat,…

Hát, which is similar to well in English is a commonly used word in Hungarian. It belongs to the word family called discourse markers. Although its use is often stigmatized, it is an essential component of spoken language since it effectively expresses the attitudes or feelings of the speaker…

sötét = dark Este sötét van = It's dark in the evening Éjszaka sötét van = it's dark in the night You can also say éjjel instead of éjszaka, it's the same.  @hunpron #dark #evening #night #hungary #hungarian #magyar ♬ original sound - Hungarian Pronunciation

A follower asked me to talk about the differences between így and ilyen.  Így means "this way", so basically it describes how an action is performed. Therefore, it is used with verbs.  Ilyen means "like this", and it is used with nouns, adjectives and adverbs.  Examples with English…

I visited a lake, which is located near a village called Orfű, in the South-Western part of the country.  There are two ways of saying (actually, better to say: writing) "the lake of Orfű".  1. If we want to say that we have visited the lake, which is located near Orfű, we can talk about orfűi…

Let's first collect the words.  látni = to see láttam = 1st person singular form in past tense, i.e. I saw egy = a, an macska = cat  Before constructing the sentence, we need to note that the verb látni has an object: látni valamit = to see something. It is a general rule in Hungarian that…