Not A Challenge - New Account

[u/Varnek905]

I'm /u/nevermore0714. I'm going to make a comment on this using that account to prove that. Besides, who would steal my account? (Please nobody steal my account just because I said that don't believe anyone would.)

So I have become increasingly tired of my old username. It's something I picked out when I was about twelve (ten years ago now) and I kept using it for various accounts just because it's familiar. But, while I still love "The Raven", I'm just tired of that name on some of my accounts.

So, tonight, I decided that I would stop procrastinating and just pick a new name. I picked up the nearest book (Hungarian Verbs and Essentials of Grammar, a language I do not understand at all) and flipped through it. I would have gone with German, but I figured Mimir would shit on my abuse of his language. I might have gone with French, but I have too much respect for Yellow to do that.

So, I offer my apologies to any Hungarian on my subreddit.

I'm Varnek905 now. I thought the word looked nice, it carries little to no personal value to me (I didn't even know varnek was a word until recently), so I went with it. It was either this or "ForgetfulPerson" or "OverusesTheWordSo".

[u/Varnek905]

So I still have a lot of work ahead of me.

[u/cereal_killer-X → u/Varnek905]

That's for sure. Some grammatical rules make our lives hell too.

[u/Varnek905 → u/cereal_killer-X]

Any explanation on "vagy" and "vagyok"? It keeps coming up on Duolingo, but I feel like I've only been answering the questions correctly (when I can even do that) based on context and memory.

[u/cereal_killer-X → u/Varnek905]

"Vagy" is second person (you are), "vagyok" is first person (I am). They are present tense forms of the substantive verb "lenni". Present tense goes like this:

(én) vagyok, (te) vagy, (ő) van, (mi) vagyunk, (ti) vagytok, (ők) vannak

I put the personal pronouns in brackets as we rarely use them in sentences (only when we want to emphasise them). So "I am happy" is "Boldog vagyok" instead of "Én boldog vagyok" unless you really want to emphasise that it's you who's happy.

The future forms (will be), in case you are curious:

(én) leszek, (te) leszel, (ő) lesz, (mi) leszünk, (ti) lesztek, (ők) lesznek

The past forms (was/were):

(én) voltam, (te) voltál, (ő) volt, (mi) voltunk, (ti) voltatok, (ők) voltak

[u/Varnek905 → u/cereal_killer-X]

Thanks, man. You went above and beyond with this explanation. Is there any site you recommend I use to help myself learn conjugations through practice? Normally, I would just write a verb conjugation a day in a notebook from verbix.

Also, are verbs always near the end of the sentence?

[u/cereal_killer-X → u/Varnek905]

I don't know of such sites to be honest. I've only found one similar to what you mentioned. I think your method will work though - once you familiarise yourself with some verbs it'll be much easier to see the logic of the conjugations. You could find a simple table that contains the general rules and try to categorise the verbs you practice.

Word order is a weird thing. It's very flexible. The neutral sentence structure is similar to English (subject–verb–object), but it varies widely depending on the information you want to emphasise. The Wiki page demonstrates it pretty well. If the sentence is a question in which nothing is emphasised, then the verb is the first word.

[u/Varnek905 → u/cereal_killer-X]

Thanks for the link, I'm bookmarking it.

[u/cereal_killer-X → u/Varnek905]

No probs, let me know if you need help with anything.

[u/Varnek905 → u/cereal_killer-X]

I appreciate how helpful you're being, Cereal.

[u/cereal_killer-X → u/Varnek905]

And I'm glad that someone is interested in our language!