THE ADJECTIVE
Qualifies a
noun or a pronoun
TYPES:
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE
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Possessive adjective: |
HU |
English |
Comment |
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Singular
1st person |
az én toll-am |
my
pen |
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Singular
2nd person |
a te toll-ad |
your
pen |
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Singular
2nd person |
az Ön toll-a |
Your
pen |
Polite/formal |
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Singular
2nd person |
a Maga
toll-a |
your
pen |
Common/formal |
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Singular
3rd person |
az ő toll-a |
His/her/its
pen |
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Plural
1st person |
a mi toll-unk |
our
pen |
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Plural
2nd person |
a ti toll-atok |
your
pen |
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Plural
2nd person |
az Önök
toll-a |
your
pen |
Polite/formal |
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Plural
2nd person |
a Maguk
toll-a |
your
pen |
Common/formal |
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Plural
3rd person |
az ő |
their
pen |
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PRESENT PARTICIPLE as adjective:
Eg.
a galloping
donkey/ egy vágtató szamár
a
sleeping child/egy alvó gyermek
a crying
baby/egy síró baba
a
damaging decision/egy romboló döntés
PAST
PARTICIPLE as adjective:
Eg.
a given word/ egy adott szó
a kept word/ egy megtartott
szó
a well
written novel/egy
jól megírt regény
a stolen idea/ egy ellopott
ötlet
a settled horse/ egy
lenyugtatott ló
INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVE:
whose?,
what?, which?
|
HU |
English |
Comment |
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KINEK
A barátja Ön? |
Whose
friend are You? |
ADJ
= NOUN |
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Melyik
út vezet Budára? |
Which
way is it to Buda? |
ADJ
= NOUN |
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Milyen
választ kaptál? |
What
response did you get? |
ADJ
= NOUN |
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Milyen
kedvesnek kell
lenni egy tanárnak a diákokkal? |
How
KIND a teacher
must be with her/his students?. |
ADJ
= ADJ |
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Milyen gyakran mégy a moziba? |
How often do you go to the cinema? |
ADJ = ADVERB |
DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE:
this,
these, that, those, such, same
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HU |
English |
Comment |
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Ez a lány ki kell menjen az
osztályból. |
This girl should get out of the
class. |
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Az
a fiú szintén menjen ki ! |
That boy should also get out . |
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Ezek a tanulók beszélnek magyarul. |
These students speak Hungarian. |
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Azok a lányok csak angolul
beszélnek. |
Those girls only speak English. |
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Az efajta/eféle tanulóknak nem lenne szabad
nyelvórára járni. |
Such students should not attend
a language class. |
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Megint
ugyanazok a
tanulók csevegnek az osztályban. |
The
same students
talk again in class. |
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THE COMPARATIVE and THE SUPERLATIVE OF ADJECTIVES:
Keep in mind
the Hungarian vowel harmony principle in all
grammatical contexts:
1., a
á o ó u ú should PAIR with a á o ó u
ú
2., e é i í ö ő ü ű should PAIR with e é i í ö ő ü ű
REMEMBER THERE ARE ALSO exceptions !!!!
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POSITIVE |
English |
COMPARATIVE |
English |
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NAGY |
big |
NAGY-o-BB |
bigger |
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kis |
small |
kiss-e-bb |
smaller |
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szép |
beautiful |
sze-bb |
more
beautiful |
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édes |
sweet |
édes-e-bb |
sweeter |
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jó |
good |
jobb |
better |
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savanyú |
sour,
acidy, |
savanyúbb |
more
sour |
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SUPERLATIVE |
English |
SUPER SUPERLATIVE |
English |
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LEGNAGYOBB |
the
biggest, the least big |
A LEGESLEGNAGYOBB |
by far
the biggest |
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LEGKISSEBB |
the smallest, the least
small |
A LEGESLEGKISSEBB |
by far the smallest |
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legszebb |
the most/least beautiful |
A LEGESLEGSZEBB |
by far the most beautiful |
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LEGÉDESEBB |
the sweetest, the least
sweet |
A LEGESLEGÉDESEBB |
by far the sweetest |
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legsavanyúbb |
the most/least sour |
a legeslegsavanyúbb |
by
far the most sour |
exaggerate
GENDER:
The ADJECTIVE has NO GENDER in Hungarian.
(see exercises)