Introduce yourself — where you're from, what you do, and your interests.
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Honnan jössz?
Where are you from? (Literally 'from where do you come' — honnan = from where.)
Németországból jövök.
I'm from Germany. (-ból = 'out of'. Németország — 'German-land'.)
Hol laksz? Budapesten lakom.
Where do you live? I live in Budapest. (-en is the 'on/at' suffix used with city names in Hungary.)
Mi a munkád?
What's your job? (-d = 'your'. Literally 'what [is] the work-your'.)
Mivel foglalkozol?
What do you do for a living? (Literally 'with-what do you occupy yourself' — -val/-vel means 'with'.)
Adatelemző vagyok. / Művész vagyok. / Tanár vagyok. / Tanárnő vagyok.
I'm a data scientist / an artist / a teacher. (No 'a/an' before professions. 'Tanárnő' = female teacher (nő = woman).)
Tanulsz? Mit tanulsz?
Do you study? What do you study? (Same verb 'tanulni' means both to study and to learn.)
Nyelveket tanulok az egyetemen.
I study languages at university. ('Nyelv' = language/tongue; -eket = plural accusative.)
Milyen nyelveken beszélsz?
What languages do you speak? (Literally 'on what languages do you speak' — Hungarian uses -n with 'beszélni'.)
Beszélek angolul és egy kicsit magyarul.
I speak English and a little Hungarian. (-ul/-ül turns a nationality into 'in that language' — angol → angolul.)
Mi az anyanyelved?
What's your native language? ('Anyanyelv' — literally 'mother-tongue' (anya = mother, nyelv = tongue).)
Mit csinálsz a szabadidődben?
What do you do in your free time? ('Szabadidő' — szabad (free) + idő (time). -ben = 'in'.)
Szeretek olvasni és filmeket nézni.
I like to read and watch movies. ('Szeretek + infinitive' — 'I love/like to'. Same verb means love and like.)
Szeretek a barátaimmal találkozni és viccelődni.
I like meeting friends and joking around. ('Barátaimmal' — barát (friend) + -aim (my, plural) + -mal (with).)
Van valami hobbid?
Do you have any hobbies? ('Van + noun + -d' is how Hungarian says 'you have' — literally 'is there a hobby-yours'.)
Sportolsz?
Do you do any sports? (Hungarian turns 'sport' into a verb with -ol.)
Hány éves vagy? Huszonegy éves vagyok.
How old are you? I'm twenty-one. (Literally 'how many year-y are you'. Huszon-egy = twenty-one (compound).)
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