4 · Beginner · 10 minutes
Ez mi?
By the end you can: Point at anything and ask what it is, then answer the same question.
Two words do most of the work: ("this", near) and ("that", far). To ask what something is, put the thing first: ? or the fuller ? — both are fine. To answer: . "This is an apple."
Notice there is no verb in . Hungarian drops "is" and "are" in the present tense when you simply identify or describe something. . . No needed. You will meet the one place is required in a later lesson.
There is no grammatical gender. None. No //, no /, no masculine or feminine endings to memorise. A word is just a word. For German speakers this removes an entire layer of the language; for Arabic and Hebrew speakers, there is no masculine/feminine agreement to track on adjectives or verbs either.
The article is before a consonant and before a vowel: , , but , . Same word, easier to say. When you point — , — the / and the article stack up, and that is correct, not a typo.