Koccintsunk csak!

Koccintsunk csak! [ˈkotsːintʃunk tʃɑk] – Cheers! 🥂 🍻
[Literally: Let’s clink (our glasses)!]

Looks like it’s a rather old and very rarely used phrase… you can read it on this poster from 1938 and in this magazine from 1923 writing about a Hungarian folk song which was famous in the 1880s. 😀

koccintani [ˈkotsːintɑni] – to clink glasses; to drink to
koccintás [ˈkotsːintaːʃ] – clink 🥂 🍻
kocc [ˈkotsː] – the sound of a bump / clash
koccanás [ˈkotsːɑnaːʃ] – bump; knock; clash; rear-ender
összekoccanni [ˈøsːɛkotsːɑnːi] – to clash; to bump; to collide

Photo: Wil Stewart (Unsplash)

megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért

One of the longest Hungarian words, ”megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért” means something like “due to your (plural) repeatedly not being possible to be desecrated”. But here I decomposed it to its individual parts, so that you can see how it was composed. 🙂

megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért – due to your (plural) cannot-be-desecratednessoussings
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitek – your (plural) cannot-be-desecratednessoussings
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseit – his/her cannot-be-desecratednessoussings (accousative)
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedései – his/her cannot-be-desecratednessoussings 🙂
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedése – his/her cannot-be-desecratednessoussing 🙂
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedés – cannot-be-desecratednessoussing 🙂
megszentségteleníthetetlenséges – cannot-be-desecratednessous 🙂
megszentségteleníthetetlenség – cannot-be-desecratedness 🙂
megszentségteleníthetetlen – somebody/something that cannot be desecrated
megszentségteleníthet – he/she might desecrate something
megszentségtelenít – he/she desecrates something
szentségtelenít – he/she is desecrating something
szentségtelen – unholy
szentség – sainthood; holiness
szent – saint (noun); holy (adjective)

You’ve got to love Hungarian! :D #49

A törött török tőrök toroktörők. [ɑ ˈtørøtː ˈtørøk ˈtøːrøk ˈtoroktørøːk]
– The broken Turkish daggers are throat-breakers.

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tört [ˈtørt] – broken
törött [ˈtørøtː] – broken
törni [ˈtørni] – to break
tör [ˈtør] – he/she/it is breaking
törők [ˈtørøːk]
1) people, that break something (plural)
2) some things, that are used to break something
[e.g.: csonttörők – bone-breakers]

török [ˈtørøk]
1) Turk (person)
2) (singular only) Turkish (language)
3) I am breaking; I will break

tőr [ˈtøːr] – dagger
tőrök [ˈtøːrøk] – daggers
torok [ˈtorok] – throat

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toroktörő törött török tőrök [ˈtoroktørøː ˈtørøtː ˈtørøk ˈtøːrøk]
– throat-breaker broken Turkish daggers

tettetett

Te tetted e tettetett tettet, te tettetett tettek tettese, te!
– You did this pretended act, you, doer of pretended acts, you!

The sentence is actually in eszperente (not esperanto).
Eszperente is a Hungarian language game, in which only the vowel e is allowed to use, but one must still speak CORRECT Hungarian. 😉

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te – you
tenni – to do
tetted – you did
e; ez; eme – this
tettetett – pretended
tettetni – to pretend
tett – act
tettet
1) act (in accusative)
2) he/she/it pretends

tettek – acts
tettes – cuplrit; delinquent; offender; doer

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Hungarian dictionaries use the Third preson singular form of the verbs (e.g. tettet), because from them one can easily learn/deduce how the particular verb is conjugated. The verbs however are in the form “tettetni”, where “-ni” is the sign of “infinitive”.

So the verb tettetni (to pretend) is conjugated as:::
1. tettetek (I pretend)
2. tettetsz (you pretend)
3. tettet (he/she/it pretends)

1. tettetünk (we pretend)
2. tettettek (you pretend)
3. tettetnek (they pretend)

But, in the sentence in the picture “tettet” is not the third person singular form of the verb “tettetni”, but the accusative form of the word “tett”. Have fun with Hungarian! 😛

A követ követ követ.

A követ követ követ. – The envoy is following a stone.

 

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kő [ˈkøː] – stone

követ [ˈkøvɛt]

1) envoy; legat

2) stone (accousative)

3) he/she/it is following; he/she/it follows

 

követni [ˈkøvɛtni] – to follow

Hungarian tongue twisters #10

Azt mondták a hatalmasok: akinek hat alma sok, az már elég hatalmas ok, hogy ne legyen hatalma sok!

The powerful/mighty said, that the people for whom six apples are a lot, that is already a huge reason why they shall not be powerful/mighty.

mondani – to say; to tell
hatalmas
1) huge
2) powerful; mighty

aki – who; that
hat – six
alma – apple
sok – a lot; lot of; much; many
az – that
már – already; yet
elég – enough
ok – reason; cause
hogy – so that; so; that
ne legyen – shall not be
mindenható – almighty
sokk – shock
ez – this
hogy?; hogyan? – how?

because – mert; azért, … mert; mivel
because of that – amiatt
because of this – emiatt
particular – bizonyos

Hungarian tongue twisters #9

Mit sütsz, kis szűcs? Tán sós húst sütsz, kis szűcs?
[ˈmit ʃyts kiʃ syːtʃ taːn ʃoːʃ huːʃt ʃyts kiʃ syːtʃ]

What are you baking/roasting/frying little furrier? Perhaps you’re roasting some salty meat, little furrier?

mi [ˈmi]
1) we; us
2) what?
[e.g.: Mi van a kezedben? – What is in your hand?]

mit? [ˈmit]
1) what? (accusative)
Mit gondolsz? – What do you think?
2) why?
[e.g.: Mit szórakozol velem? – Why (the hell) are you messing with me?]

sütni [ˈʃytni]
1) to bake
2) to roast
3) to shine (mainly the Sun)

kis; kicsi [ˈkiʃ / kitʃo] – little; small
szűcs [ˈsyːtʃ] – furrier; skinner
tán; talán [ˈtaːn / talaːn] – perhaps; maybe
só [ˈʃoː] – salt
sós [ˈʃoːʃ] – salty
hús [ˈhuːʃ] – meat; flesh

cukor [ˈtzukor] – sugar
cukros [ˈtzukroʃ] – sugary; sugared
édes [ˈeːdeʃ] – sweet

Hungarian tongue twisters #8

Jamaika a jamaikaiaké!

Jamaica belongs to the Jamaicans!

Hungarian tongue twisters #7

Ádám bátyám pávát látván száját tátván pávává vált.

My older brother, Adam, (as) seeing a peacock gaping (keeping his mouth wide open) has become a peacock.

báty – older brother
öcs – younger brother
nővér – older sister
húg – younger sister
testvér – sibling
ikertestvér – twin
Ikertestvérek vagyunk. – We are twins.

egypetéjű ikrek – identical twins
egy – one
pete – ovum
egypetéjű – someone/something with only one ovum

páva – peacock
borsó – pea
látni – to see
látva – as seeing
látván – as seeing
(ki)tátani – to gape (to open the mouth wide)
valamivé válni – to become something

Hungarian tongue twisters #6

Meggymag! Szelíd meggymag vagy, vagy vad meggymag vagy?

Sour cherry seed! Are you a cultivated sour cherry seed, or a wild sour cherry seed?

meggy – sour cherry
cseresznye – cherry
mag – seed
szelíd
1) gentle; meek (person)
2) tame (animal)
3) cultivated (plant)
vagy
1) or
2) you are (as “te vagy”)
vad – wild