Language/Hungarian/Grammar/How-to-form-the-feminine

Genders in Hugarian

Hungarian does not know the grammatical category of the genre. We only express the natural gender, by various means.

Usually there are different words for masculine and feminine: szerzetes "monk" / apáca "religious".

Sometimes the composition is used with the word nő "woman" (színész "actor" + nő ➡ színésznő "actress").

In some cases, the natural gender is expressed only through the context.

For example for "grandson" and "granddaughter" there is only one word, unoka.

Examples: Masculine & Feminine in Hugarian

English Gender	Hungarian Gender
Feminine	Nőies
he is happy	(ő) boldog (male)
she is happy	(ő) boldog (female)
he is American	ő amerikai
she is American	ő amerikai
man	férfi
woman	nő
father	apa
mother	anya
brother	fiútestvér or fivér. Older brother: báty, younger brother: öcs
sister	lánytestvér. Older sister: nővér, younger sister: húg
uncle	nagybácsi
aunt	nagynéni
bull	bika
cow	tehén
boy	fiú
girl	lány

Sources

• https://mylanguages.org/hungarian_feminine.php
• http://projetbabel.org/hongrois/grammaire_3_5.php

Other Lessons

• Possessed object
• Conditional Mood
• Adjectives
• Possessor
• Cardinal Numbers
• Gender
• Plurals
• Questions
• Nouns
• Future Tense
• Plural
• Negation