szublatívusz
Onto the table
Motion onto a surface — and, by convention, to Hungarian towns and Hungary itself.
-ra/-re is motion onto a surface, and by long convention motion to Hungarian towns and to Hungary. It is the hová? of the surface triad.
Endings
-ra · -re
Sublative · onto / to (a surface or Hungarian place) · surface triad, goal
When not to use it
Not for a building you will be inside. Iskolába megyek — I go to school — takes the interior ending, because you end up in the building.
Tell them apart
Budapestre megyek.
I’m going to Budapest.
Londonba megyek.
I’m going to London.
Hungarian destinations sit on the map; foreign ones go into it.
Notes
- Az asztalra teszem — I put it onto the table.
- Budapestre megyek, Magyarországra utazom.
- Idiom decides the edge cases: iskolába, but a mérkőzésre.
Examples
Az asztalra teszem.
I put it onto the table.
Ülj a székre.
Sit down on the chair.
Pécsre megyünk.
We’re going to Pécs.
Magyarországra utazom.
I’m travelling to Hungary.
Felmentünk a tetőre.
We went up onto the roof.