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    Say It in Hungarian
    Say It in Hungarian
    Say It in Hungarian
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    Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateNov 13, 2012
    ISBN9780486148304
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      Say It in Hungarian - Dover

      SAY IT IN

      HUNGARIAN

      by Juliette Victor-Rood, Ph.D.

      Assistant Professor o f German

      The Pennsylvania State University

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      New York

      Copyright © 1983 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

      Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC2H 7EG.

      Say It in Hungarian is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1983.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc.

      180 Varick Street

      New York, N.Y. 10014

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

      Victor-Rood, Juliette.

      Say it in Hungarian.

      (Dover say it series)

      Includes index.

      1. Hungarian language—Conversation and phrase books—

      English. I. Title.

      PH2121.V5  1983  494´.51183421  82-12947

      eISBN 13: 978-0-486-14830-4

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Pronunciation

      Everyday Phrases

      Social Phrases

      Basic Questions

      Talking about Yourself

      Making Yourself Understood

      Difficulties and Misunderstandings

      Customs

      Baggage

      Travel Directions

      Boat

      Airplane

      Train

      Bus, Subway, Streetcar

      Taxi

      Renting Autos and Other Vehicles

      Auto: Directions

      Auto: Help on the Road

      Auto: Gas Station and Auto Repair Shop

      Parts of the Car (and Auto Equipment)

      Mail

      Telegram

      Telephone

      Hotel

      Chambermaid

      Renting an Apartment

      Apartment: Useful Words

      Café and Bar

      Restaurant

      Food: Seasonings

      Beverages and Breakfast Foods

      Soups

      Salads

      Meats and Meat Dishes

      Poultry

      Fish and Seafood

      Sauces

      Vegetables, Starches, and Side Dishes

      Fruits

      Desserts

      Sightseeing

      Worship

      Entertainments

      Nightclub and Dancing

      Sports and Games

      Hiking and Camping

      Bank and Money

      Shopping

      Clothing and Accessories

      Colors

      Materials

      Bookshop, Stationer, Newsdealer

      Pharmacy

      Drugstore Items

      Camera Shop and Photography

      Gift and Souvenir List

      Cigar Store

      Laundry and Dry Cleaning

      Repairs and Adjustments

      Barber Shop

      Beauty Parlor

      Stores and Services

      Baby Care

      Health and Illness

      Ailments

      Dentist

      Accidents

      Parts of the Body

      Time

      Weather

      Days of the Week

      Holidays

      Dates, Months and Seasons

      Numbers: Cardinals

      Numbers: Ordinals

      Quantities

      Family

      Common Signs & Public Notices

      Index

      Appendix: Common Road Signs

      INTRODUCTION

      Hungarian is spoken by about 13 million people, mainly in the central Danube Valley. Aside from being the national language of Hungary, Hungarian is spoken by substantial communities in Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. Other Hungarian speakers are scattered throughout the world, including about half a million of them in the United States. There is little difference between dialects in Hungarian, and the phrases in this book will be understood by Hungarian speakers everywhere.

      Hungarian is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family of languages, and is therefore unrelated to the familiar languages of Europe. Its closest relatives are the Vogul and Ostyak languages of Siberia, and it is more distantly related to Finnish and Estonian. As you might expect, then, Hungarian grammar is quite different from that of English and other Indo-European languages, and Hungarian has always been considered a difficult language to learn. Say It in Hungarian will enable you to communicate in a part of Eastern Europe where few people speak English.

      NOTES ON THE USE OF THIS BOOK

      The words, phrases and sentences in this book have been selected to provide for the communications needs of the traveler or foreign resident in Hungary, and they have been divided into sections corresponding to the situations likely to be encountered in travel and in daily life. The entries which consist of vocabulary lists have been alphabetized according to their English headings, with the exception of the sections on food and public notices, which have been alphabetized according to the Hungarian entries to facilitate reference to menus and signs. The index at the back of the book serves as a handy English-Hungarian glossary, and helps you to locate quickly a specific word or phrase. With the aid of the index or a bilingual dictionary, many sentence patterns included here will answer innumerable needs. For example, the place occupied by six in the sentence

      I shall wait for your call until [six] o’clock.

      may be filled with another number in accordance with your needs. In other sentences, the words in square brackets can be replaced with words immediately following (in the same sentence or in the indented entries below it). Thus, the entry

      These things [to the left] [to the right] belong to me.

      provides two sentences: These things to the left belong to me and These things to the right belong to me. Three sentences are provided by the following entries:

      How much does it cost [per hour]?

      —per kilometer.

      —per day.

      The substitutions taken from the same entry or the indented entries following a sentence will always be in the correct grammatical form. Since Hungarian nouns and verbs take a variety of endings depending on their context, those substitutions you supply yourself from the index or a bilingual dictionary will not always be in the correct form. However, Hungarians should have no trouble understanding what you mean.

      Please note that while brackets always indicate the possibility of substitution, parentheses have been used to provide additional information. They are used to indicate synonyms or alternative usage for an entry:

      Please have a seat. (OR: Won’t you sit down?)

      Parentheses may also be used to explain the nuances of a word or phrase. The abbreviation LIT. is used whenever a parenthetical literal translation of a Hungarian sentence is provided. When a word has different forms according to sex (like English actor and actress), the abbreviations M. and F. will be used to indicate masculine and feminine forms, respectively.

      You will notice that the word please has been omitted from many of the sentences in this book. This was done for reasons of space and clarity. To be polite, you should add the word kérem (KAY-rehm) whenever you would normally say please in English.

      The extensive index at the back of the book is especially useful. Capitalized items in the index refer to section headings and give the number of the page on which the section begins. All other numbers refer to entry numbers (individual entries are numbered consecutively throughout the book).

      PRONUNCIATION

      Although Hungarian has some sounds with which you are probably unfamiliar, you should be able to produce them with a little practice, especially when you hear spoken Hungarian and try to imitate it. To aid you in pronouncing Hungarian properly, we have provided a convenient transcription system and the explanatory chart which follows. Look over the chart carefully; the transcription should be read like English except for the special rules noted in the chart. With care, you will be able to make yourself understood in Hungarian before you have heard a word of it spoken.

      CONSONANTS

      VOWELS

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