Learn how to ask about your possessions
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| Sziasztok, Lívia vagyok! Hi everybody! I’m Livia. |
| Welcome to HungarianPod101.com’s “Magyar nyelvleckék három percben”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Hungarian. |
| In the last lesson, we learned how to talk about age. |
| In this lesson, we’re going to learn about possessions in Hungarian. Surprisingly enough, the verb van can also be used to talk about things you own! Convenient, isn’t it? |
| Here's a question you might be asked: Van autód? “Do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] Van autód? |
| Let’s take a closer look at this question. |
| In this case, the verb stays in its dictionary form. Verbs usually come at the end of a sentence in Hungarian, but when it’s a question, the word order is reversed. |
| autó means “car”. |
| You have to conjugate this noun to indicate possession, in this case, to say “your car”, you have to add the suffix -d. |
| autód |
| Van autód? |
| So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question? |
| It’s really simple! Usually we just say Igen, meaning “Yes”. Or you can answer with the verb itself. |
| Igen, van. “Yes, I have". |
| If you want to say “I have a car” in a full sentence, you have to conjugate the noun differently. |
| In this case, you have to change the suffix to -m, meaning “my car”. |
| Van autóm. “I have a car.” |
| [slowly] Van autóm. |
| Here's another example. Say that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Van egy tollad? Which is “Do you have a pen?” |
| Notice how there’s an extra word, egy. |
| You might remember that egy is the word for the number “one”. Literally, this question means, “Do you have one pen?” We use it like this when we don’t mean a specific object, just want to borrow something. |
| If you only have a red pen, you can answer Van egy piros tollam. “I have a red pen.” |
| Okay, so now let’s look at the FORMAL way to ask someone if he or she has something. |
| The verb in this case stays the same but we have to conjugate the noun again. |
| Instead of autód, you’ll say autója, to mean “Your car”. For example... |
| Van autója? “Do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] Van autója? |
| Now it’s time for Livia’s tips. |
| You can even use the verb van to ask people about their family members. As you can see, it’s a very versatile verb! For example: |
| “Do you have any siblings?” is |
| Van testvéred? |
| In recent lessons, we have learned about the verb van, meaning both “to be” and “to have”. |
| Next time we’ll learn how to use this verb in its negative form in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”. |
| Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in Hungarian, you just have to add one little word? |
| I'll be waiting for you in the next Magyar nyelvleckék három percben lesson. Sziasztok! |
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