BASIC HUNGARIAN PHRASES - #4 

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+Marianne Reddick Hey^^ If you wanna practise our language, I can help you since I'm hungarian too :D :)) Oh and one more thing: *Köszönöm szépen :) [sorry for correcting, maybe it was kinda rude. XD]

+lorDken11 Hi thanks, yes if you are serious I would like to practice and learn Hungarian. correcting me is not rude, it's helpful.

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My dad and his girlfriend did a Viking river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam back in November last year

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My dad and his girlfriend did a Viking river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam back in November last year

Dear seredyya! ÜDVÖZLÖM! Yes there are several ways to say 'HI!' in hungarian, but it depends on who you're talking to, his/her age, and sometimes the situation as well. If you are speaking to a well known person (family, friends), you can say: - SZIA (meeting one person) or SZIASZTOK (2 or more) and you can use these to anyone. E.g. Szia anya! (Hi mom!) or Szia Ross bácsi! (Hi uncle Ross!) BUT we DON'T use it plural, like: Sziasztok Peter and Sam! (Hi Peter and Sam!) CORRECTLY it's: Szia Peter, szia Sam! (Hi Peter, hi Sam!) or it's just Sziasztok! without using any names. - SZERVUSZ (meeting 1) or SZERVUSZTOK (2 or more) are the same as SZIA and SZIASZTOK, and we use them the same way as well (I'd say they are a bit old fashioned, but still in use) E.g. Szervusz Peter, örülök, hogy látlak! (Hi Peter, nice to see you!) - SZEVA or SZEVASZTOK (use this only between very close friends, it's a form of slang, and I never heard a woman using it, but it can happen) E.g. Szeva srácok! (Hi guys!) or just Szevasztok! - HELLÓ (use only in singular, there is no such thing as HELLÓSZTOK, although I heard it before, but it's not correct grammatically) - very COMMON SLANG words to say hi, you might hear a lot, is CSÁ or CSÁÓ (from the italian ciao) and CSŐ (these are used between friends as well), or u can use HALI (slang form of hello) These above can be used to say hello, and to say good bye as well. Mainly we say SZIA or HELLÓ. SZIA is a more sympathic, HELLÓ is more of a neutral way to say hi. So for example if I find a girl sympathic at first sight I mainly say SZIA and for man I say mainly HELLÓ, but it's not a written rule. If you are meeting a new person, and he/she is about the same age or younger than you are (e.g. one of your friends introducing you to one his/her friends), you can use SZIA, SZERVUSZ and HELLÓ as well, if you are younger (two 50 aged man rarely say SZIA to each other for example, they use SZERVUSZ or ÜDVÖZLÖM instead). ÜDVÖZLETEM, ÜDVÖZLÖM or shortly ÜDV is a more polite way to say hi, escepcially when you won't get introduced and meeting someone alone. They all mean the same: Greetings E.g.: Üdvözlöm! A nevem... (Greetings! My name is...) Üdvözletem Kovács úr! (Greetings Mr. Smith! smith =kovács). Younger people mainly use ÜDV (the short version, because we are lazy :) Üdv Anna, hogy VAGY? (Greetings Anna, how are you?) or Üdv Anna, hogy VAN? (Greetings Anna, how are You?). The second expression is addressing the person formally (polite form). If you are saying hi to a totally unfamiliar person, especially if he/she is older than you, or you are at a job interview, you must use the polite/formal forms, unless you don't want to be rude. So all of the expressions above are wrong, except ÜDVÖZLÖM/ÜDVÖZLETEM, even ÜDV (short version) is out of the question. In this case, we can use: - JÓ REGGELT (Good morning), JÓ NAPOT (Good day)/ SZÉP NAPOT (Nice day) JÓ ESTÉT (Good evening) and JÓ ÉJSZAKÁT (Good night) are used as in english, but we don't have the expression Good afternoon (E.g. Jó napot szomszéd! (Good day to you neighbor!)) If you want to be even more polite (or you really want the job :)) you can say: JÓ REGGELT KÍVÁNOK! meaning I wish you Good morning! These expressions can be used for meeting a man and a woman as well - as I mentioned ÜDVÖZLÖM/ÜDVÖZLETEM can be used, the short version not - if a man or a younger woman meets a lady, he/she can say KEZÉT CSÓKOLOM or KEZEIT CSÓKOLOM (literally meaning "I kiss your hand", even if they don't do that, of course it's not forbidden). Or in this case, it's not rude to use the shorter form CSÓKOLOM, witch has the same meaning (E.g. (Kezit) csókolom Margit néni! - 'I kiss your hand' Mrs. Margareth). You can use the form KÉZCSÓK, CSÓKOLTATOM as well, it means the same, but it's generally used in the countryside. - you should never use the informal expressions to elder people, unless they gave you permission to do so. In this case, they'll say: TEGEZHETSZ, TEGEZŐDJÜNK, meaning you can "switch to informal mode" from now on, so SZIA, SZERVUSZ are allowed to be used (BUT NO SLANG!) For saying Goodbye we generally use the expressions SZIA, SZERVUSZ, HELLÓ (or the plural versions)informally. If you wan't to be polite, or you didn't get permission to use the informal expressions, you should use VISZONT LÁTÁSRA (meaning See you again) or the short version VISZLÁT, it means the same. Or if you say Goodbye to a lady, you can use CSÓKOLOM (and the other forms) as well (but it's not necessery, VISZONTLÁTÁSRA is good also). (Actually youngsters use CSÓKOLOM for elder man and woman saying hello and saying goodbye as well). There are more expressions what we use, mainly in the countryside, but I think these are the basics. I certainly hope that this "little" novel helped :) VISZONTLÁTÁSRA seredyya!

+Christina Schulz Good question. The last year i was the first time in hungaria and i was told that one don´t say "kérek" and "kérem" in the same sentance (Kérek...., kérem.). But he could´nt explain me why. Maybe you, Eszter can do. Thank you.

+Stella Thank you sooo much for your explanation, that was so helpful!! :)

+Panik Thank you for replying ;)

videod! with a D you fucking idiot

Why would he be an idiot? But you are a jerk, man, that's for sure. Inflexion (like the 't's in the end of the words) is a whole other topic. Teach if you have the energy, don't troll!

Alexander Y: You must be very unhappy with yourself, to feel the need to tear someone else down, to build yourself up.

It's "kérek" - the first "é" is little bit longer than the second one. Try to pronounce "babe". Think about the same sound, and that is what you have to say after the first "k".

TwiztedGames please hang in there for a few weeks. I'm working on course that I'm planning to upload to Udemy and that's supposed to help a lot!

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there is a little help :) nagyon tetszik* - "tetszel" mean "i like you" "this" mean "ez a" "and" mean "és" "more" mean "még" or "többet" - both of them are correct now. We use commas like - "I would like to have lemon, apple and banana" "Kérek citromot, almát és banánt" However, in your sentence we do not use "and". It sounds in hungarian a little bit funnily. We understand what you want to say, but it is incorrect. It is complex sentence, so we use comma instead of "and". "nagyon tetszik ez a videó, kérek még/többet. The perfect one would be: "Nagyon tetszett (ez) a videó, várom a következőt!" it means --> "I really liked this video, I am waiting for the next one."