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Personal pronouns in the accusative case
How Hungarian personal pronouns change as direct objects, and how that choice affects verb conjugation.
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Hungarian language, history, traditions, and everyday culture.
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How one Hungarian question word gives you five pronouns
Hungarian pronouns aren't a random list: they're a logical system built on question words.
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Hungary's cabinet of ministers today
Hungarian ministerial titles — how each portfolio is named today, and how the system has evolved since 1848.
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Degrees of comparison in Hungarian
How to say 'just as', 'more' and 'the most'. Plus why the Zemplén bridge belongs in this post.
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Szotyi and makuka
You already know szotyi. But what about makuka?
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How to order rétes without getting lost in the fillings
The Hungarian suffix -s: how to turn a noun into an adjective and read a menu while you're at it. Filling vocabulary below.
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John Doe in Hungarian
Meet Gipsz Jakab, Hungary's everyman placeholder and the most famous unknown Hungarian.
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How else do Hungarians intensify emotions?
Baromi, tök, iszonyú, and kurva are colloquial intensifiers in Hungarian.
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Rohadt or rothadt: which is correct?
Two similar Hungarian words that are easy to confuse. Let's sort them out.
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Accusative case: exceptions
Words that change their stem before the accusative -t: vowel dropping, vowel alternation, and the hidden -v-.
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When to use "to be": van and vannak
Figuring out when Hungarian needs the verb "to be" in the third person, and when it doesn't.
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Hungarian through football: the MAGYAROK track
Breaking down 10 phrases and references from Valmar's MAGYAROK, covering fan chants, legendary moments and football slang. Vocabulary at the bottom.
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Hungary may return to Eurovision
New prime minister Péter Magyar said he will instruct the minister of culture to look into the possibility of Hungary rejoining the contest. Vocabulary at the bottom.
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Nádasdy on the Hungarian language
An excerpt from Nádasdy Ádám's book «Milyen nyelv a magyar?» on vocabulary, grammar, and Hungarian's place in Europe.
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Hungary and Eurovision
Hungary's Eurovision history: from the 1994 debut to acts with Hungarian roots in 2025. Vocabulary list at the bottom.
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1989: The Last Generation of Socialist Hungary
A BBC archive report by Nick Thorpe about teenagers who grew up in a country on the verge of changing forever. Vocabulary list at the bottom.