Learn how to ask "Where?"
Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Unlock Lesson Notes and Transcripts for every single lesson. Sign Up for a Free Lifetime Account and Get 7 Days of Premium Access.
| 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 ask "What" questions in Hungarian. |
| This time, we are going to ask "Where" questions. |
| Imagine you want to ask where your friend is now. You will ask him Hol vagy? This is the exact translation of "Where are you?" |
| [slowly] Hol vagy? |
| So let’s break down this question. |
| First we had- |
| Hol, which is the basic translation of "Where" in Hungarian. |
| Then, vagy, which is "are", the 2nd person form of the verb van, which we have already studied. |
| So, altogether it is Hol vagy?, “Where are you?" |
| So in Hungarian, "Where" is mainly translated as Hol. |
| For example, if you want to ask "Where do you live?" You will say Hol laksz? |
| The question word stays the same, no matter the person or the level of politeness. |
| But be careful, because if you want to ask "Where do you come from?" you will have to use a different word - Honnan instead of Hol. |
| So that question is Honnan jöttél? |
| The word also changes if you are asking about the direction or final destination. If you say, for example, Hová mész? |
| This means "Where are you going to?" |
| When you want to ask about a route, you can also say Hogyan which literally means "how." |
| For example, you can often hear Hogyan mész Budapestre? This means "By what means are you going to Budapest?" or “Which route are you taking to Budapest?” |
| The grammatical rule for Hol, Honnan or Hogyan remains the same – they all have to be followed by a verb. |
| Hol vagy? - here the verb is van meaning “to be” |
| Honnan jöttél? here the verb is jön "to come" |
| Hová mész? Here the verb is megy “to go”. |
| Before ending this lesson, let’s look back at all the ways to translate "Where" in Hungarian: |
| - Hol is the basic "Where", as in "Where do you live?" Hol laksz? |
| - Honnan refers to the origin or the starting point, as in "Where do you come from?" Honnan jöttél? |
| - Hová refers to the destination or arrival point, as in "Where are you going to?" |
| Hová mész? |
| - Hogyan refers to the method, or the desired route, as in "By what means are you going to Budapest?" Hogyan mész? |
| Now it’s time for Livia’s tips. |
| If you ask about a stranger’s country of origin, you can use "Where do you come from", Honnan jöttél? Or to sound a bit less direct, you can ask Honnan származol? That can be translated as "From where are you native?" |
| In this lesson, we learned how to correctly use the Hungarian word for "Where", Hol, and also its different variations. |
| Now you can avoid getting lost! |
| In the next lesson we’ll learn more about asking questions, this time using "When" in Hungarian. Do you know how to ask someone when they are coming home, for example? |
| We’ll be talking about that in the next Magyar nyelvleckék három percben. |
| Sziasztok! |
Comments
Hide