Learn how to turn nouns into the accusative
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Simone: Hi everyone and welcome back to HungarianPod101.com. This is Lower Beginner Season 1, Lesson Five, Satisfying Your Hunger in Hungarian. I'm Simone. |
| Csaba: And I'm Csaba. |
| Simone: In this lesson, we're going to learn to use some nouns as objects in a sentence. |
| Csaba: The dialogue takes place in Anne's apartment. |
| Simone: It's between Anne and Balazs. |
| Csaba: As usual, they talk informally. |
| Simone: Let's listen to the conversation. |
| Balázs:Kész vagy már? |
| Anne:Ne türelmetlenkedj! |
| Balázs:Addig rendelek kaját. Mit kérsz? |
| Anne:Kérek egy tésztát, meg üdítőt is. Te mit kérsz? |
| Balázs:Kérek egy szendvicset meg egy kólát. |
| Anne:Én teát kérek. |
| Simone: Let's listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| Hallgassuk meg a párbeszédet még egyszer lassabban! |
| Balázs:Kész vagy már? |
| Anne:Ne türelmetlenkedj! |
| Balázs:Addig rendelek kaját. Mit kérsz? |
| Anne:Kérek egy tésztát, meg üdítőt is. Te mit kérsz? |
| Balázs:Kérek egy szendvicset meg egy kólát. |
| Anne:Én teát kérek. |
| Simone: Let's listen to the conversation with English translation. |
| Hallgassuk meg a párbeszédet még egyszer angol fordítással. |
| Kész vagy már? — Are you done yet? |
| Ne türelmetlenkedj! — Don't be so impatient! |
| Addig rendelek kaját. — I'll order some food in the meantime. |
| Mit kérsz? — What would you like to have? |
| Kérek egy tésztát, meg üdítőt is. — I'd like some noodles and something to drink. |
| Te mit kérsz? — What would you like? |
| Kérek egy szendvicset, meg egy kólát. — I'd like a sandwich and a Coke. |
| Én teát kérek. — I want tea. |
| Simone: Alright, the food is on the way. The night might still turn out to be romantic. |
| Csaba: With home delivery? I don't think so. |
| Simone: Well, you can't be out of your house all the time. Which reminds me: do I need to tip delivery people in Hungary? |
| Csaba: Yes, you tip everyone. These guys normally get about ten percent. Cabbies expect around fifteen. |
| Simone: So you pretty much tip everyone in Hungary, right? |
| Csaba: Well, service industry, yes. It’s also customary to give some money to the guys who fix things in your home. |
| Simone: And how much is that? |
| Csaba: There is no fixed rule, but I would say no less than a thousand forints. Now, those guys might try not to give you a receipt. In that case, you don't tip, since they don't pay taxes after what they've earned. |
| Simone: You should know that this is illegal. But not your fault. |
| Csaba: Anyways, onto the vocab. |
| Simone: Sounds good. Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| The first word we shall see is rendel — “order.” |
| Rendel. |
| Next: szendvics — “sandwich.” |
| Szendvics. |
| Next: tészta — “noodles.” |
| Tészta. |
| Next: kóla — “Coke.” |
| Kóla. |
| Next: üdítő — “beverage.” |
| Üdítő. |
| Next: türelmetlenkedik — “act impatient.” |
| Türelmetlenkedik. |
| Next: tea — “tea.” |
| Tea. |
| Last is mit? — “what” (accusative). |
| mit. |
| Simone: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Csaba: The first phrase we look at is:Ne türelmetlenkedj! Ne türelmetlenkedj! |
| Simone: Which means: Don't be impatient. |
| Csaba: Right. The base word is türelem or patience. Then we have türelmetlen or impatient. |
| Simone: Can you give us an example of that? |
| Csaba: János nagyon türelmetlen. |
| Simone: John is very impatient. |
| Csaba: And as a final step, we turn it into a verb, türelmetlenkedik.This literally means act impatient |
| Simone: Can you repeat the first sentence again? |
| Csaba:Ne türelmetlenkedj! Needless to say, this is very informal. Ne means don’t. |
| Simone: All right, what else do we have? |
| Csaba: Kész vagy már? |
| Simone: Are you done yet? |
| Csaba: Kész vagy már? This is used to urge the other person to work faster It's also very informal. |
| Simone: Can you give us a more formal version too? |
| Csaba: All right, let's say you need to have some official business taken care of. You are registering at immigration, taking care of a fine or anything official, basically. Upon finishing, you might want to say Már kész is vagyunk? |
| Simone: We're done already. |
| Csaba: This pays a compliment because you're happy about the swift and convenient handling of your stuff. It also carries the meaning that you're polite and grateful. |
| Simone:And if you're not done yet, they can always say nem. |
| Csaba: Right. |
| Simone: Okay, then let's check the grammar point. |
| In this lesson, you're going to learn how to turn nouns into the accusative, that is, how to make a noun the object in a sentence. |
| Csaba: Yes. As you might remember from the past lessons, we taught you indefinite conjugation of verbs. Indefinite conjugation is used when there is no object (which is not what we deal with in this lesson) or if there is an object that's preceded by an indefinite article. |
| Simone:In English, the indefinite articles are "a" and "an. |
| Csaba:In Hungarian it is "egy." You also use indefinite conjugation if there is no article or there is a quantity before the noun. |
| Simone: All right, tell us what to pay attention to. |
| Csaba: I'll give you a noun and a sentence: tészta tészta |
| Simone: Noodles |
| Csaba: kérek egy tésztát |
| Simone: Literally this means I'd like a noodle, but it means I'd like some noodles. |
| Csaba: Right, you saw how tészta became tésztát. |
| Csaba: This is because in the sentence it is in the object position, in the accusative. |
| Simone: Alright, so what's the rule? |
| Csaba: If a noun ends in a vowel and you want to put it in the accusative, add a t. If that vowel is a, pronounce á. Tészta becomes tésztát. If that vowel is an e, pronounce é. |
| Simone:Ok, we’ve had examples like that. Coke was? |
| Csaba:Kóla. |
| Simone:In the accusative, say, “I’d like coke.” |
| Csaba:Kólát kérek. Kóla became kólát. |
| Simone: All right, this is doable. Add t after the vowel, change a and e. What happens when the last letter is not a vowel but a consonant? |
| Csaba: I'm glad you asked, Simone. |
| Simone: Uh-oh. |
| Csaba:You choose one of these: -ot, -et, -öt. The usual vowel harmony rules apply. |
| Simone:I knew it wouldn’t be that easy. Let’s hear a couple of examples. “student” |
| Csaba:The base word is diák. In the accusative: diákot. |
| Simone:How do you say: “I teach a student”? |
| Csaba:Tanítok egy diákot. Tanítok egy diákot. |
| Simone:All right, another one. “Lunch.” |
| Csaba:“Lunch” in Hungarian is ebéd. In the accusative: ebédet. |
| Simone:“Would you like a nice lunch?” |
| Csaba:Kérsz egy finom ebédet? Kérsz egy finom ebédet? |
| There are some consonants that are exceptions. Be sure to read the lesson notes for more information. |
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| Simone: Okay, that's it for this lesson. See you in the next one! |
| Csaba: Sziasztok! |
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