• FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Do adjectives change their form in the same way verbs do? So could you gloss “a tea biszexuális” as “the tea bisexuals”, with a different form for plural tea, for if you or I are being described as bisexual"?

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Sounds like someone speaks the language here : ). No and no. Plural of tea: teák. The ‘is’ is still not needed, but the plural gets added to the adjective, too: a teák biszexuálisak.

      For I, you (singular), we and you (plural) we actually use the appropriate form of is/be (but note that pronouns are not needed, unless you want to emphasise them). ‘Be’ gets inclined accordingly to the person/pronoun, therefore:
      I am bisexual -> biszexuális vagyok

      You (s) are bisexual -> biszexuális vagy

      We are bisexual -> biszexuálisak vagyunk

      You (p) are bisexual -> biszexuálisak vagytok

      I can’t wait for the future recommended words by my keyboard app now.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Oh interesting, so you can omit it only in the third person (or maybe some other situations - but not all) I’ve not heard of that exact set up before :)

        • Dicska@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 hours ago

          I wonder how it works in Finnish and Estonian - the two distant relatives to Hungarian. I can’t think of anything else within the language family.

          • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            2 hours ago

            I believe in Finnish you use “is” with adjectives, although I can’t remember any Finnish adjectives right now.

            …

            Had to look it up, yeah found an example: “lukeminen on hauskaa” = “reading is fun”