Re: NATLANG: Humagrian glossary
From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 15:37 |
>>What are the forms for 'inni' and 'enni'? For 'enni' the best I could
>> come
>>up with is 'meg lesz edve', but...I dunno. And for 'inni', I'm at a total
>>loss...
>
> I thought you were a native speaker, and you were vegging. I asked my
> native speaker referee here and she vegged (I thought if I caught her
> off-guard, she might have a gut response, but she stopped to think
> about it, and the indecision kicked in). She profferred "éve" or
> "eszve", but even she didn't know either. She said she might hit up
> her father, a teacher, for an answer. Stay tuned.
>
See that's it. I *am* a native speaker. I've only truly studied Hungarian
very minimally, so I don't know a lot about how things work and why, I
just use it. Kinda like your average airplane passenger. :D
I asked my dad, grandmother and others too, and their replies were 'edve',
'eszve' or 'ilyet nem mondanak' (='such is not said', ie, nobody uses such
a form).