Lesson Six: Location and Numbers 1-10

Vocabulary
Grammar
Exercises

Vocabulary

honnan? - from where?
ide - to here
oda - to there
innen - from here
onnan - from there
mikor? - when?
színház (-at) - theatre
utazik - to travel
ember (-t) - person
mozi (-t) - movie theatre
ma - today
épület (-et) - building
bolt (-ot) - store
iroda ('-t) - office
hány? - how many?

Hová megy Péter? -Oda megy.
Where is Peter going? -He's going there.

Honnan jössz (see below)? -Onnan jövök (see below).
Where are you coming from? -I'm coming from there.

Ma megyek a boltba.
I'm going to the store today.

Mikor utazol?
When are you travelling?

Grammar

The Irregular Verb Jönni 'to come'

Here is the conjugation of the verb jönni. This verb can be used with the question word honnan 'from where'. Example sentences will follow the next grammar section.

én jövök	mi jövünk
te jössz	ti jöttök
o" jön	o"k jönnek

Note: Jönni is an intransitive verb, so there is no definite conjugation.
Honnan jössz? Where do you come from?
You'll be able to answer this after the next section...

Location

Last lesson, you learned that there were three suffixes used to express the English 'to'. ba/be means 'to or into an enclosed space'. ra/re means 'on to', or 'to' with Hungarian place names. And hoz/hez/höz means 'to a point in space'.
In this lesson you will learn two other sets of suffixes: one set for expressing location (at, in, on) and one set for expressing from a location. Each of these sets are broken into three groups exactly as suffixes ba/be etc...
The following tables shows all of these suffixes in relation to each other:

	Honnan?	Hol?	Hová?
an enclosed space	ból/bo"l 'from'	ban/ben 'in'	ba/be 'to,into'
on some surface	ról/ro"l 'from'	link vowel +N 'on'	ra/re 'on to,to'
a point in space	tól/to"l 'from'	nál/nél 'at'	hoz/hez/höz 'to'

Note: the irregular nouns that took ra/re also take N and ról/ro"l

Az asztalnál ülünk.
We are sitting at the table.

Az irodában dolgozik.
He works at/in the office.

Magyarországon lakom. Budapesten.
I live in Hungary. In Budapest.

Londonból Romába utazom.
I am travelling from London to Rome.

Péterto"l vagy a moziból jössz?
Are you coming from Peter's or the movies?

Budapestro"l Debrecenbe mennek.
They are going from Budapest to Debrecen.

Egy étteremben eszünk.
We are eating in a restaurant.

Az épületbe mész?
Are you going into the building?

A postán van.
He/she is at the post office.

Now answer the question: Honnan jössz?

Numbers 1 to 10

Egy - 1
Ketto" (két before a noun) - 2
Három - 3
Négy - 4
Öt - 5
Hat - 6
Hét - 7
Nyolc - 8
Kilenc - 9
Tíz - 10

Két autót akarok.
I want two cars.

Kilenc embert látok.
I see nine men.

Hány színház van Bécsben? (Bécs=Vienna)
How many theatres are there in Vienna?

Négy színház van Bécsben.
There are four theatres in Vienna.

Exercises

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Szegedro"l jön. (Szeged is a town in the south of Hungary)
2. Sok ember van most a szállodában.
3. Két gulyást kérek.
4. Egy barátnál vagyunk.
5. Magyarországon lakom, de Amerikában akarok lakni.
6. Onnan a színházba megyek.

Translate the following into Hungarian:

7. They are coming from Kati's.
8. I am travelling to Hungary today.
9. There are ten people in the house.
10. I study Hungarian in Budapest.
11. Are you going from New York to Vienna or to Budapest?
12. I like to go to the movies (cinema).

Conjugate the verb jönni.

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