Hungarian: An Essential Grammar

✍ Scribed by Carol Rounds

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Routledge Essential Grammars
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hungarian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of this fascinating language.

All students of Hungarian, whether beginners or at intermediate and advanced levels, will welcome its clarity of presentation and jargon-free explanations. It is ideal for those studying independently or following a taught course.

Topics include:

• verbal prefixes
• aspect and tense
• word-formation mechanisms
• vowel harmony
• the case system and its uses
• word order
• appendices include the formation of irregular verbs, complete noun declensions and irregular noun patterns

With numerous language examples bringing grammar to life, this truly essential reference work will prove invaluable to all students looking to master the patterns and irregularities of modern Hungarian.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
PART 1 Alphabet, pronunciation and vowel harmony
Chapter 1 Alphabet
Chapter 2 Pronunciation
Chapter 3 Vowel harmony
PART II Parts of speech
Chapter 4 Verbs
Chapter 5 Nouns
Chapter 6 The case system
Chapter 7 Pronouns
Chapter 8 Possession
Chapter 9 Postpositions
Chapter 10 Adjectives
Chapter 11 Adverbs
Chapter 12 Word formation
Chapter 13 Conjunctions
Chapter 14 Numerals
Chapter 15 Interjections
PART III Sentence structure
Chapter 16 Sentence elements and word order
Chapter 17 Special constructions
Appendix 1 Irregular verbs
Appendix 2 Sample noun declensions
Appendix 3 Noun types and exceptions
Index