Basic Hungarian Words and Phrases

Have you ever seen a book "Easy Hungarian" or "Learn Hungarian in 3 days"? Likely, no. Hungarian is one of the most difficult languages to learn and likely the hardest language with over 5 million speakers. Not just our grammar is complicated, but learning the Hungarian words is also challenging, because most of its word roots do not resemble to Latin, German or Slavic words and contain special accented letters like ö,ő,ü,ű,í which might not be displayed correctly on your monitor. Once a lyrics translator illustrated how different English and Hungarian is by using the example of "plane crash" which is "repülőgép-szerencsétlenség" in Hungarian.

We, Hungarians are aware of how difficult our language is, and appreciate if you can say "Thank You" or "Good Morning" in Hungarian. Below you find a few basic words and phrases in Hungarian, which we consider can be useful during your stay in Hungary.