People and pointing
Pronouns
The verb already tells you who. Keep pronouns for contrast, cases, and pointing.
Personal
| Nom | Acc | Dat | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| én | engem | nekem | I / me |
| te | téged | neked | you (sg informal) |
| ő | őt | neki | he / she — no gender split |
| mi | minket / bennünket | nekünk | we / us |
| ti | titeket / benneteket | nektek | you (pl informal) |
| ők | őket | nekik | they |
Polite you
- ön / Önyou (sg polite)
- önök / Önökyou (pl polite)
- maga / magukyou (older / regional polite)
Reflexive
- magam, magad, maga, magunk, magatok, magukmyself … themselves
- Megnézem magam.I look at myself.
Demonstrative, question, relative
- ezthis
- azthat
- ezek / azokthese / those
- ilyen / olyanthis kind / that kind
- ennyi / annyithis many / that many
- ki / kikwho
- mi / mikwhat
- melyikwhich (of them)
- hol / hová / honnanwhere / to where / from where
- mikorwhen
- hogyan / hogyhow
- miértwhy
- mennyi / hányhow much / how many
- akiwho (people)
- ami / amely / amelyikwhich / that (things)
- ahol / ahová / ahonnanwhere / to where / from where
- Drop subject pronouns unless you are contrasting or stressing them. The verb already names the person.
- ő is genderless. Context or a name does the work English does with he/she.
- Cases attach to pronoun stems: bennem, veled, tőle, rátok.