Ferenc wrote :
> > when the direct object is indefinite. Intransitive verbs only allow the
> > "-ok" form:
> >
> > Fut-ok
> > run-1sg
> > "I run"
> >
> > "Futom" is no good. Do I have my facts correct here? I don't really
> > know much about Hungarian, other than what I've read in linguistics
> > articles...
>
> Futom a versenyt. = I run the race.
>
> It works fine.
What is *a* ? I mean : is it that *fut* becomes transitive (as you say above that
verbs are either trans/intrans) or is it that lative and locative may be
rendered as a direct object like in Japanese :
araku : I walk
yama wo aruku : *I walk the mountain (acc)
?
Mathias
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