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Hungarian: An Essential Grammar
About this book
Hungarian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of this fascinating language.
All students of Hungarian, whether beginners or at intermediate and advanced levels, will welcome its clarity of presentation and jargon-free explanations. It is ideal for those studying independently or following a taught course.
Topics include:
- verbal prefixes
- aspect and tense
- word-formation mechanisms
- vowel harmony
- the case system and its uses
- word order
- appendices include the formation of irregular verbs, complete noun declensions and irregular noun patterns
With numerous language examples bringing grammar to life, this truly essential reference work will prove invaluable to all students looking to master the patterns and irregularities of modern Hungarian.
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PART I
Alphabet, pronunciation and vowel harmony
Chapter 1
Alphabet
Hungarian uses the Roman alphabet in addition to some diacritics placed over some vowels. The diacritics resembling accent marks above the vowels indicate that the vowel is ‘long’ - see the pronunciation section to follow. Some consonants are digraphs, i.e., they consist of two letters; one consonant (dzs) is a trigraph. Although they are written with more than one letter, the digraphs and trigraph are each individual letters of the alphabet.
a á b c cs d dz dzs e é f g gy h i í j k l ly m n
ny o ó ö ő p (q) r s sz t ty u ú ü ű v (w) (x) (y) z zs
Unless found in the spellings of foreign words and a few Hungarian names, the letters q, w, and x are not used; the letter y is found only in old spellings (pronounced as the letter i) and in digraphs.
Chapter 2
Pronunciation
2.1 Consonants
2.1.1
Many of the consonants in Hungarian are pronounced as in English. All consonants are pronounced - there are no silent letters. The following are those consonants pronounced differently than in English; their pronunciation equivalents are given in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
| c | [ts] | as in cats | cukor sugar ecet vinegar |
| cs | [t∫] | as in church | csal deceive bocsánat excuse me |
| dzs | [ | as in jury | dzsem jam dzsessz jazz |
| g | [g] | (always hard) as in go | gaz weed igen yes |
| j | [i] | as in yes | jó good fáj hurt |
| r | [r] | trill the tongue on the top of the mouth | ró carve kérem please |
| s | [∫] | as in she | sárga yellow este evening |
| sz | [s] | as in sat | szervusz hi asztal table |
| zs | [ | as in azure | zseb pocket garázs garage |
2.1.2 The palatal series
The following four consonants are pala...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I: Alphabet, Pronunciation and Vowel Harmony
- Part II: Parts of Speech
- Part III: Sentence Structure
- Appendix 1 Irregular verbs
- Appendix 2 Sample noun declensions
- Appendix 3 Noun types and exceptions