Learn how to use the verb "to go"
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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 easily use Hungarian adjectives. |
| In this lesson we will start learning the most common Hungarian verbs, the ones you will definitely hear all the time! |
| The first verb will be megy, which means "to go". We will use this word along with many different destinations. |
| So imagine someone asks you Hová mész a télen? That means "Where are you going for your winter holidays?" in the informal form. |
| So if you are going to a ski resort for example you will say Síelni megyek. |
| [slowly] Síelni megyek. |
| So let’s break down this answer- |
| Do you remember how to conjugate verbs in the present tense? Let’s try it with this one. |
| megyek - I go |
| mész - you go (singular) |
| megy - he/she/it goes |
| megyünk - we go |
| mentek - you go (plural) |
| mennek - they go |
| Notice that in the question, the verb indicates the second person. Hová mész? Where are YOU going? |
| In Hungarian, verbs usually appear at the end of the sentence, so when answering, you just have to conjugate the verb in the correct form. |
| Síelni megyek. |
| Síelni in this form means “go to ski”. The dictionary form of this verb is síel. When indicating “go to do something” we put the suffix “-ni” after the dictionary form of the verb. So síel becomes síelni. |
| Let’s see this question in formal language as well. |
| Hová megy a télen? - “Where are you going for the winter holidays?” |
| [slowly] Hová megy a télen? |
| Now let’s try the same thing using nouns. |
| For example, you want to say - “We are going to the sauna.” |
| “sauna” is szauna. |
| With nouns, you have to use the suffix -ba or -be which indicates direction. |
| Do you remember how to conjugate the verb to indicate “we”? |
| That’s right, megyünk. |
| Szaunába megyünk. |
| [slowly] Szaunába megyünk. |
| Now it’s time for Livia’s tips. |
| A difficult part of the Hungarian language is vowels changing depending on suffixes. For example, words ending in a or e, almost certainly change to á or é when adding the suffixes. |
| Szauna, becomes szanÁba. |
| This change doesn’t occur if the word ends with a consonant. |
| So, in this lesson, we learned how to use the verb megy. |
| Next time we’ll learn another very useful verb, csinál, meaning “to do something.” |
| Do you know how to ask people what they are doing? We’ll talk about it in the next Magyar nyelvleckék három percben. Sziasztok! |
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