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12/04/2026

Gratulálok, Magyarország!
😍🎉 🇭🇺

❤️🤍💚

választások [ˈvaːlɑstaːʃok] – electionsválasztás [ˈvaːlɑstaːʃ]1) choice2) election (in politics)választó [ˈvaːlɑstoː]1) ...
11/04/2026

választások [ˈvaːlɑstaːʃok] – elections
választás [ˈvaːlɑstaːʃ]
1) choice
2) election (in politics)

választó [ˈvaːlɑstoː]
1) elector; voter
2) choosing; electing; selecting

választ [ˈvaːlɑst] – he/she/it is choosing
választani [ˈvaːlɑstɑni]
1) to choose
2) to elect
3) to separate (as elválasztani, szétválasztani, különválasztani)

választási [ˈvaːlɑstaːʃi] – electoral; elective

szavazati jog [ˈsɑvɑzɑti jog] – voting right
szavazat [ˈsɑvɑzɑt] – vote
szavazni [ˈsɑvɑzni] – to vote
(-ra/-re) szavaz [ˈsɑvɑz] – he/she/it is voting (for)
szavazó [ˈsɑvɑzoː] – voter; elector
szavazás [ˈsɑvɑzaːʃ] – vote; voting

"Rabok legyünk vagy szabadok?
Ez a kérdés, válasszatok!"
–
"Shall we be slaves or free?
This is the question, choose your answer!"

This quote is from the Nemzeti dal ("National Song"), a Hungarian patriotic poem written by Sándor Petőfi that is said to have inspired the Hungarian Revolution of 1848: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemzeti_dal

Photo: Gabriel Ádám - linkingabo, 2020

Kellemes húsvéti ünnepeket! [ˈkɛlːɛmɛʃ huːʃveːti ynːɛpɛkɛt] – Happy Easter! 🎉 🐇 🥚(Literally: Pleasant Easter Holidays!)H...
06/04/2026

Kellemes húsvéti ünnepeket! [ˈkɛlːɛmɛʃ huːʃveːti ynːɛpɛkɛt] – Happy Easter! 🎉 🐇 🥚
(Literally: Pleasant Easter Holidays!)

Húsvét [ˈhuːʃveːt] – Easter
The word Húsvét refers to the “first day when we can eat meat after the Christian Lent” because meat is forbidden during Lent, so “a HÚS magunkhoz VÉTelének első napja”.

hús [ˈhuːʃ] – meat; flesh
magához vétele [ˈmɑgaːhoz veːtɛlɛ] – his/her taking in; his/her ingest(ing)
magához vétet [ˈmɑgaːhoz veːtɛt] – he/she takes in; he/she ingests (archaic)
magához vesz [ˈmɑgaːhoz ves] – he/she takes in; he/she ingests
magához venni [ˈmɑgaːhoz venːi] – to take in; to ingest
böjt [ˈbøjt] – lent; fast; fasting

húsvéti [ˈhuːʃveːti] – Easter (egg – húsvéti tojás); of Easter (adjective)
húsvéti nyuszi [ˈhuːʃveːti ɲusi] – Easter Bunny
nyuszi [ˈɲusi] – bunny 🐇
nyúl [ˈɲuːl] 🐇
1) rabbit; hare
2) coward (as gyáva nyúl)
3) he/she/its is reaching for (nyúl valamiért)

nyúlni [ˈɲuːlni] – to reach for (nyúlni valamiért)

húsvéthétfő [ˈhuːʃveːt heːtføː] – Easter Monday
hímes tojás [ˈhiːmeʃtojaːʃ] – decorated Hungarian Easter egg
tojás [ˈtojaːʃ] – egg 🥚

You can read more about the Hungarian Easter traditions here:
https://dailymagyar.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/husvet/
http://thehungariangirl.com/.../easter-customs-in-hungary/ ...and here:http://www.emuv.kee.hu/.../documents/easter_in_hungary.pdf

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There is a lot of sprinkling poems, but this one is the traditional one, that everyone knows. 🙂Zöld erdőben jártam,kék i...
06/04/2026

There is a lot of sprinkling poems, but this one is the traditional one, that everyone knows. 🙂

Zöld erdőben jártam,
kék ibolyát láttam.
El akart hervadni.
Szabad-e locsolni?

[ˈzøld ɛrdøːbɛn jaːrtɑm]
[ˈkeːk ibojaːt laːtːɑm]
[ˈɛlɑkɑrt hɛrvɑdni]
[ˈsɑbɑde lotʃolni]

Húsvét [ˈhuːʃveːt] – Easter
húsvéti [ˈhuːʃveːti] – Easter (egg – húsvéti tojás); of Easter
locsolóvers [ˈlotʃoloːvɛrʃ] – sprinkling poem
locsoló [ˈlotʃoloː] – sprinkler (boy)
a locsolók [ˈɑ lotʃoloːk] – the sprinklers (boys and men)
locsolni [ˈlotʃolni] – to sprinkle

Kellemes húsvéti ünnepeket! [ˈkɛlːɛmɛʃ huːʃveːti ynːɛpɛkɛt] – Happy Easter!
(Literally: Pleasant Easter Holidays!)

húsvéthétfő [ˈhuːʃveːt heːtføː] – Easter Monday
hímes tojás [ˈhiːmeʃtojaːʃ] – decorated Hungarian Easter egg

On Easter Monday the girls must be sprinkled, because they are flowers, and as those, they need water to stay fresh, healthy and beautiful. 🙂
So the boys come to the girl’s house and the girl opens the door. The boy has to recite a sprinkle-poem (locsolóvers) ending with the question “Szabad-e locsolni? (May I sprinkle?)”, in order to ask for permission from the girl that he can sprinkle her. If the girl likes the poem, she says “Szabad (locsolni).” (you may sprinkle) and then the boy sprinkles her with a glass of water, bucket of water, perfume or anything. 🌊

After that the girl may or may not kiss the boy on his face and gives the boy a decorated-egg (hímes tojás), chocolate or nowadays also money. Then the girl invites the boy into their house and offers him food, cakes and something to drink. The boy stays there for a while and then leaves to visit an other girl. 🙂 🌷

You can read more about the Hungarian Easter traditions here: http://thehungariangirl.com/2013/03/08/easter-customs-in-hungary/ ...and here:http://www.emuv.kee.hu/rootsandroutes/documents/easter_in_hungary.pdf

The best Hungarian April Fools' jokes:A legjobb magyar április elsejei poénok:😀Április bolondja [ˈaːpriliʃ boloɲɟɑ] – Ap...
01/04/2026

The best Hungarian April Fools' jokes:
A legjobb magyar április elsejei poénok:

😀

Április bolondja [ˈaːpriliʃ boloɲɟɑ] – April Fools
(Literally: April's Fool)

április [ˈaːpriliʃ] – April
bolondja [ˈboloɲɟɑ] – his/her fool
bolond [ˈbolond] – fool; silly; foolish

Április elseje [ˈaːpriliʃ ɛlʃɛjɛ] – April 1st
Bolondok napja [ˈbolondok nɑpjɑ] – Fools' day

15/03/2026

The Hungarian Revolution and War of Independece of 1848/49 started on the 15th of March in 1848. Nowadays it is a national holiday, celebrated all across the country every year with interesting programs and commemoration venues in every major and minor city in Hungary.

This holiday is also commemorated in the Slovakian, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian cities, where Hungarians live... but it's not a public holiday, so we must go to work... and celebrate after.

forradalom [ˈforːɑdɑlom] – revolution
szabadságharc [ˈsɑbɑdʃːaːɡhɑrts] – war of independence
szabadság [ˈsɑbɑdʃːaːɡ] – liberty; freedom
szabad [ˈsɑbɑd]
1) free; open; vacant; unoccupied
2) allowed

harc [ˈhɑrts] – battle; fight
nemzeti [ˈnɛmzɛti] – national; vernacular
nemzet [ˈnɛmzɛt] – nation
dal [ˈdɑl] – song
vértanú [ˈveːrtɑnuː] – martyr
vér [ˈveːr] – blood
tanú [ˈtɑnuː] – witness

"Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább nem leszünk!"
[ˈɛʃkysynk hoɟ rɑbok tovaːbː nɛm lɛsynk]

Az 1848/49-es forradalom és szabadságharc – The Hungarian Revolution of 1848/49: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848

Nemzeti dal – National Song: https://dailymagyar.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/nemzeti-dal-marcius-15/

Mit kíván a magyar nemzet. (12 pont) – What the Hungarian nation wants. (12 points): https://dailymagyar.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/12-pont-marcius-15/

Az aradi vértanúk – The 13 Martyrs of Arad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Martyrs_of_Arad

08/03/2026

Happy Women's Day! 🙂
Boldog nőnapot! 🙂
🌷

nő [ˈnøː]
1) woman
2) he/she/it grows; he/she/it is growing

nők [ˈnøːk] – women
nőnek [ˈnøːnɛk]
1) they grow; they are growing
2) to a woman (e.g. giving flower "to a woman")

nőni [ˈnøːni] – to grow
növény [ˈnøveːɲ] – plant
(Literally: the result of growing)

növényzet [ˈnøveːɲzɛt] – flora
növényvilág [ˈnøveːɲvilaːg] – flora
(Literally: plant-world)

Photo: Edward Howell (unsplash.com)

meggyvágó [ˈmeɟːvaːgoː] – hawfinch; Coccothraustes coccothraustes(Literally: cherry-cutter)meggy [ˈmeɟː] – sour cherry 🍒...
20/02/2026

meggyvágó [ˈmeɟːvaːgoː] – hawfinch; Coccothraustes coccothraustes
(Literally: cherry-cutter)

meggy [ˈmeɟː] – sour cherry 🍒
vágó [ˈvaːgoː]
1) cutter; slaughterer
2) chisel (tool)
3) film editor; editor
4) cutting

vágni [ˈvaːgni]
1) to cut
2) to hit; to throw
3) to know; to understand (slang)
(e.g.: Vágod? – You got it? / Do you understand it?)
4) to make (a facial expression; often used with arc, kép, pofa: arcot/képet/pofát vág)

Photo: Andrey Strizhkov (unsplash.com)

14/02/2026

szívem csücske [ˈsiːvɛm tʃytʃkɛ] – my loved one; my favourite one
(Literally: tip of my heart; cusp of my heart)

Szívem csücske can be a person, place, job, event or almost anything that you really like. But in most cases you address this way your loved one. 🙂

szív [ˈsiːv]
1) he/she/it is sucking
2) heart ❤️

szívni [ˈsiːvni] – to suck

csücsök [ˈtʃytʃøk] – corner; tip; cusp; the bottom part of a drawn heart

csúcs [ˈtʃyːtʃ]
1) tip; point (the sharp end of a conical object)
2) top (the uppermost part of a tree, or of a tower tapering to a point)
3) (geography) peak; summit (the top of a hill, mountain or range, ending in a point)
4) (figuratively) pinnacle; peak; height (the point of greatest achievement or success)
5) record; peak (the highest value reached in a time period)
6) rush hour (the times of the day when traffic jams are commonplace)
7) summit (gathering or assembly of leaders)
8) (geometry) vertex (the common point of the two rays of an angle)
9) (attributive, colloquial) great!; fantastic!; awesome!; the bee's knees (exceptionally good or impressive)

Photo: Tyler Nix (unsplash.com)

14/02/2026

Bálint-nap [ˈbaːlint nɑp] – Valentine’s Day
Szent Bálint [ˈsɛnt baːlint] – Saint Valentine

szeretet [ˈsɛrɛtɛt] – love (that you feel for your family members, relatives, friends, …) ❤️
szerelem [ˈsɛrɛlɛm] / [ˈsɛrɛlem] – love (that you feel for your love, girlfriend, boyfriend, …) ❤️ A long relationship usually turns from szerelem into szeretet.
.words for both szeretet and szerelem:
szeretlek [ˈsɛrɛtlɛk] – I love you ❤️
szeretni (valamit) – to like/love (something)
szeretni (valakit) – to love (somebody)
.expressions only for szerelem:
beleszerettem (valakibe) – I fell in love (with somebody)
szerelmes vagyok (valakibe) – I am in love (with somebody)
kiszerettem belőle [ˈkisɛrɛtːɛm bɛløːle] – my love for her/him is gone

01/01/2026

Boldog új évet! [ˈboldog uːj eːvɛt] – Happy New Year! 🍾 🥂
(You wish the person to have their whole new year happy.)

Boldog újévet! [ˈboldog uːjeːvɛt] – Happy New Year! 🍾 🥂
(You wish the person to have their first day of the new year happy. Sometimes also the last day of the old year.)

BÚÉK, B.Ú.É.K., B. ú. é. k. [ˈbuːeːk] or Búék [ˈbuːeːk] is the abbreviation of the wish "Boldog új évet kívánok!" [ˈboldog uːj eːvɛt kiːvaːnok] or "Boldog új évet kívánunk!" [ˈboldog uːj eːvɛt kiːvaːnunk], which means "I/we wish you a happy new year!". 🙂

boldog [ˈboldog] – happy
új [ˈuːj] – new
év [ˈeːv] – year

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