Re: Hungarian tense, aspect, mood...

On 28 Apr 2004 Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> wrote:

> -va is present participle.
  A terminological correction: present participle is -ó/o" (o" = o
with double acute). -va/ve is adverbial participle. It has the
following English equivalents:

- the gerund when it answers the question When? or How? e.g.
  "egészében _véve_" '_taking_ all in all';
- the past participle when it's used with the copula to denote the
  result of an action "fel van kapcsolva" 'it is swiched on' (N.B.
  It's not a perfect tense, it means roughly 'it is in the state of
  being switched on')