So we all know tollways are thieves and have some healthy level of hate for it, for sure in Houston, Tx anyway.

Riding with my dad and uncle the other day, I heard them talk about getting on the Tolvaj, purposely calling the tollway a thief. Has given me good amusement every time I've thought about it since. They are some funny guys. Just wondered if anyone else has done this, or other similar word plays I could also get a kick out of?

Would anyone know of ANY source that mentions what the original difference in meaning may have been between these two words, perhaps in some dialects?

So, if rain falls, a river flows, then why isn't it fire that burns?

Eső esík, folyo folyik, tűz ég.

Why does a light bulb burn and not fire? Égő ég, or why isn't burn "tűzik"? Tűzík a tűz.

Just free time musings. Didn't think up other examples since.

Added: And as I posted it, I thought well ok, light bulb is actually villány körte, so google translate told me égő is just burning...

And then I thought maybe the answer will have to do something with ikes igék, which I had never heard of until this last trip I took last summer. My family got on to me that it isn't "ásik, just ás", and that was their only explanation they could give. I guess you just had to memorize them and know them. Maybe I should try looking into it.

This is a very specific ask. I am getting eye surgery next week, and will not be able to read/look at screens for about a week. I've been learning magyarul for about 6 months now, and am at chapter 4 of magyar OK with a private tutor (my first time learning a new language, I'm older, I take it slow.)

I need suggestions for some good audio books or podcasts that I wont get tired of, to help me study during this time. It will be good to study just listening/speaking anyways without reading.

I've tried things like hungarian by heart, hungarain short stories, with zsuzsa, etc but those were a bit too advanced for me, and not good for long-term listening.

I've already listened to the hungarainpod101 podcasts, I did like those a lot because they went sentence by sentence. I also liked Learn Hungarian Anywhere, but not a lot of episodes are available.

Hi, yeah, these are two completely unrelated questions but you can either answer one of them or both.

I work at a service job right now where often times, I tell customers “we ask that you please *insert directions*” (example: “we ask that you please throw away your trash after you’re done”) and I wonder if in Hungarian, in service settings, you would also adjust your pronouns/cases when addressing customers on the behalf of the place you work at, or if you just say something like “I ask that you please throw away your trash after you’re done.” Is this common amongst all languages? Maybe I’m thinking too technically. This is just outta curiosity.

Okay, second question, are there any hungarian content creators you like watching? I want to immerse myself more and haven’t had the best of luck pirating Hungarian movies and/or shows. In any case, I spend most of my time on youtube anyways.

I'm looking for old timey and modern sentences that can be used for swearing without any actual bad words. Silly things you can say in front of children, like "a manó csípje meg!", "karmoljon meg a cica!", "a kutyafülét!" etc.

Hellooooo, I've been using a few grammar books and I still haven't quite figured when either of these are used.

My understanding is that "az" works as a deictic pronoun, that's the one I'm using here (not "az" as in the direct article). What I don't understand is when I'm supposed to use "az a ___."

For example, if I were to read the sentence "Az a könyv az asztal felett van," I'm not understanding why both the deictic pronoun and direct article are used.

Are there different degrees of specificity here? I'm not quite sure, some pointers would be appreciated.

Hi everyone, I recently found my ancestors immigration records to the US. On it, they put they are from Hungary, and specifically from the place in the photo.

It is really difficult for me to parse what it says, so I was hoping people familiar with places in Hungary could help.

For context, this occurred in 1903. They also list themselves as German speakers, not Hungarian, so it is possible they spell/say this poorly and it is written wrong.

Köszönöm.

Edit: Adding that the whole form can be seen at https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger-details/czoxMjoiMTAyNjg0MDgwMDMxIjs=/czo4OiJtYW5pZmVzdCI7, if that's helpful.

Sziasztok,

This year I want to focus on dictation in my Hungarian learning.

Does anyone have a good lesson formula for dictation, please?

I know it starts with "teacher reads a passage out loud" but what are the detailed steps after that? I can't remember the sequence we used at school, for language learning by dictation.

What has worked for you?

Köszi mindenkinek!

Például, gyakrabban mondanak "kávét iszik" vagy csak "kávézik"?

Köszönöm! ☕

Sziasztok!

After a week of not learning Hungarian (travelling, lack of time etc.) I'm back on track now and I made a review of learned words (~1000) for month and a half, almost 2, and for fun, I extracted words I found similar/same in my native language with the same meaning. So here it is:

Ásó - ašov

Asztal - sto/astal

Bársony - baršun/somot

Bécs - Beč

Bitang - bitanga

Bunda - bunda

Burzsuj - buržuj

Cél - cilj

Cipő - cipela

Csinálni - činiti

Csizma - čizma

Csopor - čopor

Csukló - čukalj

Csütörtök - četvrtak

Drága - draga (this is Slovenian actually but knowing Slovenian helped me to quickly remember this word; draga in Serbian means dear (f.))

Diák - đak/diak (Slovenian)

Ebéd - obed (obrok)

Ebédelni - obedovati

Finom - fino

Gazda - gazda

Gereblye - grabulje

Gomb - gumb (Slovenian/Croatian)/dugme

Gyilkos - đilkoš

Iskola - škola

Karika - karika

Kártyás - kartaš

Kocsi - kočija

Kolbász - kobasica

Kosár - košara/korpa

Kredenc - kredenac

Krém - krema

Kréta - kreda

Kifli - kifla

Krumpli - krompir

Kutya - kuče (kuca)

Labda - lopta

Lámpa - lampa

Lapát - lopata

Macska - mačka

Málna - malina

Mamlasz - mamlaz

Marha - marva

Matrac - madrac

Medve - medved

Muskátli - muškatla

Nárcisz - narcis

Óra - ura (again Slovenian)

Palacsinta - palačinka

Pandúr - pandur/policajac

Papír - papir

Papucs - papuča

Paradicsom - paradajz

Parfüm - parfem

Pékáru - peciva (pékség is pekara)

Pelenka - pelena

Péntek - petak

Piac - pijaca

Plafon - plafon

Plüss - pliš

Posta - pošta

Próbálni - probati

Punty - punđa

Púder - puder

Rák - rak

Rizs - riža/pirinač

Rostély - roštilj (our favourite 😂)

Rúzs - ruž

Sál - šal

Sárgarépa - šargarepa

Sétálni - šetati

Sonka - šunka

Strand - štrand (beach in Újvidék)

Szerda - sreda

Szalvéta - salveta

Szappan - sapun

Szoba - soba

Szombat - subota

Szomszéd - sused/komšija

Tábla - tabla

Tamburás - tamburaš

Tányér - tanjir

Táska - tašna

Tért - teret

Torony - toranj

Torta - torta

Tulipán - lala/tulipan

Sógor - šogor

Szallas - salaš

Utca - ulica

Vacsora - večera

Város - varoš

Váza - vaza

Virsli - viršle

Zseb - džep

And of course gulyás, lángos, gombóc, csárdás... and many more but I'm not sure how to write them in Hungarian.

Sziasztok! I've been learning Hungarian for a few months with Duolingo paired with an old (1965) textbook gifted to me by my Hungarian partner.

Anyway, each chapter starts with a story of some kind that uses concepts and vocabulary from the coming chapter, and some of the excerscises have you dissecting that text for learning.

The vocabulary for this chapter includes a lot of Winter-related terms, and as such includes both the verbs "fed" and "borít" defining both as "(to) cover." My partner has a strong L1 intuition that there is a nuance in how the two verbs may be used, but is finding it difficult to explain the difference to me. What is the difference between them?

For reference, this is the passage from the book that includes both: "A hegyeket és a völgyeket, a fákat és a bokrokat, az utakat és a házakat tiszta, friss hó fedi. Lent a hegyi tavat már vastag jég borítja." She was surprised that "fed" was being used for snow.

Köszönöm szépen!

I was taught that verbal prefixes like ki, le, meg, vissza, get broken off and placed after the verb when the verb is negated. That's not happening here. Is that because oda- and ide- are a different "class" of prefixes that aren't grouped with the others?

Hello everyone, I just made a special podcast episode for Hungarian learners, showcasing and comparing different language levels. Usually my episodes focus on levels A1/A2 and B1 but this time I added a section for B2 and C1. The topic itself is "My Day" which is not a very C1-compatible topic but I made sure to create progressively more complex sentences with more versatile vocabulary, also slightly changing the speed as we go on. Hopefully some of you find it useful. Thanks for listening. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8btzwiz7Y

Hi! First of all I would like to sorry, I don't wanna share any kind of racism. I love Hungary and especially its language. I was to this country a couple of times, I have listened to Hungarians all of the times. I noticed that, they seem to be very quite, phlegmatic and a little bit slow. Especially compare to neighbors like Slovaks, Czechs, Romanians, which are very emotional and loud.

I've been being pretty much concerned between these three points: 1. Is it just my wrong opinion which is only based on my limited experience? 2. Does a hungarian phonetics just makes me think like this? 3. Or my point is true.

P.S. I'm posting it in this sub, cuz it's very reffered to language, and I'm on first steps to learn this language (I speak 4 now, and tbh think that phonetically and aesthetically hungarian is the best one)

i wanted to know if anyone could tell me anything about my moms maiden name (Rohaly). like how common of a name is this, what does it mean, how it’s actually pronounced, really anything would be interesting to read. my family with the hungarian last name has a super americanized version of saying their last name which i know has to be wrong, they say (row-ha-lee)

sorry i don’t speak magyar and am unsure of what flair to use

I have a friend from Hungary who said that there is a language barrier between him (36) and his grandparents. Was there a linguistic movement that caused this? I know language is constantly changing but this seems really fast.

Edit: he did say language barrier, but he has only been speaking English for about 3 years, so there may have just been a misunderstanding. It seemed weird that a language could change so fast so I thought I'd ask to make sure I understood him.

How many people learning Hungarian would actually seek out classes with a native speaker?

I’m trying to gauge interest, as I’m quite passionate about languages. I’m currently learning Japanese myself, and I really love doing it. I’m a Hungarian native speaker, fluent in English, and I’ve dabbled in several other languages (mostly Romance languages).

I’ve recently realised I might really enjoy offering private, light-hearted classes, using tasks and approaches that have helped me across all the languages I’ve learned so far.

Hello! I’m looking for a Penpal to help me navigate Hungarian language and culture. I’m doing this to reconnect with my heritage and the side of my family that is no longer in my life.

I started learning about the language around 2 weeks ago.

I currently live in the US. My pronouns are (they/them).

I’m looking for someone around my age range, no older than 18. Internet penpal only because I don’t have the resources for physical Penpal-ing.

Im an artist, I like shit like Smiling Friends, Legos, horses, the ocean, David Bowie, etc.

Hello everyone!
I am planning to apply for the Intensive Hungarian Foundation Course at ELTE. Has anyone done it? If one were to start from 0, what level of Hungarian can someone obtain after doing this course according to the CEFR scale? I have looked at the course and also contacted them but I am getting contradictory answers. Thus, I am asking here.

Thank you in advance!