Hungarian, explained

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☆ no gender!! Forget all that matching verbs or adjectives with noun gender, there is none!!! Furthermore they only have one word for “he/she” (ő) and it’s completely neutral!!!

☆ it’s pretty much completely phonetic!! Once you learn how to pronounce each letter that’s it babey you’re done!! There’s really only one sound that we don’t have in English and that’s “gy” but I learnt how to pronounce it and so can you!!!

☆ n o d i a l e c t s ! ! ! You heard right! You know how German, Finnish and Norwegian, etc all have regional dialects that may or may not be understood by someone who only knows the standard language??? That whole “spoken Finnish differs from written Finnish” business??? Not an issue in Hungarian!!! Other than some normal regional vocabulary variations and such (and a few more differences in Hungarian spoken in Transylvania), Hungarian is pretty much the same all around!! Anywhere you go in Hungary speaking normal Hungarian you’ll be understood and will understand everyone else!!!

☆ so the 17 cases might be scary to see at first but it’s seriously SO logical and simple!!! Each one corresponds to a very exact thing and the basic uses are very sensible and easy to learn!! The language is like a nice logical puzzle that fits together perfectly when you have all the right pieces!!!

☆ also adjectives don’t have to match up with cases like in, for example, Finnish!!! Unless you’re using the adjective predicatively (as in “the girls are pretty”) you don’t have to decline it!! You just use the normal adjective it’s so easy!!!

☆ only two verb tenses are really used!!! Present and past!!! There’s conditional and subjunctive/imperative but they’re also really easy!! So there’s like four major tenses compared to what, like, 20 in french or Spanish???? Hungarian conjugation is so simple !!! (There’s also the permissive tense but it can be saved for later and it’s also really easy too I promise!!)

☆ going back to cases, the endings are really simple!!! If you’ve studied Finnish you know that you gotta change this or that letter and do this or that, but in Hungarian you just -bam- stick the ending on! You just gotta know vowel harmony and sometimes there are linking vowels but you seriously just slap the ending on there 90% of the time without the stem changing into some weird stuff!!

☆ counting is really simple and logical!!

☆ it’s just a really pretty language and sounds so smooth and melodic I love it!!!

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