Learn how to turn nouns into the accusative
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Simone:Hello everyone and welcome back to HungarianPod101.com. This is Lower Beginner Season 1, lesson 5, Satisfying your Hunger in Hungarian. I am Simone. |
| Csaba:And I am Csaba. |
| Simone:In this lesson we’re going to learn to use some nouns as object in a sentence. |
| Csaba:The dialogue takes place in Anne’s apartment... |
| Simone:...between Anne and Balázs. |
| Csaba:As usual, they talk informally. |
| Simone:Let’s listen to the conversation. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Simone:All right, the food is on the way, maybe the night might still turn out to be romantic. |
| Csaba:With home delivery? I don’t think so. |
| Simone:You can’t be out of your house all the time. Which reminds me, do I tip delivery guys 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 is also customary to give some money to the guys who fix things in your home. |
| Simone:How much is that? |
| Csaba:There is no fixed rule, but I’d say no less than 1000 forints. Now, those guys might try not 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. |
| Csaba:But not your fault. Anyways, vocab? |
| Simone:Let’s hear it. |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Simone:All right. What do you have for us? |
| Csaba:The first phrase we’re going to talk about is ne türelmetlenkedj! |
| Simone:Talk about unnecessarily long words... |
| Csaba:Ne türelmetlenkedj! |
| Simone:Which means “don’t be impatient.” |
| Csaba:Right. The base word is türelem or “patience.” Than we have türelmetlen, or “impatient.” |
| Simone:Give us an example with that. |
| Csaba:Please repeat: János nagyon türelmetlen. |
| Simone:“János is very impatient.” |
| Csaba:And as a final step, we turn it into a verb, türelmetlenkedik, which literally means |
| Simone:Can you repeat the first sentence again? |
| Csaba:Ne türelmetlenkedj! Needless to say, this is very informal. Ne means don’t. |
| Simone:How do you say “don’t go!” |
| Csaba:Repeat: Ne menj! |
| Simone:All right, what else? |
| Csaba:Please repeat: Kész vagy már? |
| Simone:“Are you done yet?” |
| Csaba:This is used to urge the other person to work faster. Also very informal. I’ll repeat again: Kész vagy már? |
| Simone:These are all very informal, so please 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 ask: Már kész is vagyunk? |
| Simone:“We’re done already?” |
| Csaba:This pays a compliment, because you are 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. Can we go to grammar now? |
| Simone:I know you’ve been aching to. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Simone:In this lesson we’re going learn how to turn nouns into 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 today – or if there is an object that’s preceded by an indefinite article. |
| Simone:In English of course, the indefinite articles are “a/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. 2X |
| Simone:“noodles” |
| Csaba:Kérek egy tésztát. 2X |
| Simone:Literally: “I’d like a noodle.” but “I’d like some noodles.” |
| Csaba:Right. You saw how tészta became tésztát. This is because in the sentence it is in the object position, in the accusative. |
| Simone:All right, 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 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. |
| 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? |
| Simone:All right, anything else? |
| Csaba:One final note. If the noun ends in one of these consonants: l, ly, n, ny, r, s, sz or z, just simply add a -t. |
| Simone:I don’t even know if it makes it easier or harder. |
| Csaba:Easier, of course. Check the lesson notes for more information! |
Outro |
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| Simone:And see you guys next time. Bye. |
| Csaba:Sziasztok! |
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