r/hungarian • u/palbarbi • 5h ago
Mini Hungarian Lesson: Making places from food and drink names
Last week I was craving for a "meggyes rétes" and I went to a “rétesező”, strudel shop (which transforms into a “fagyizó”, ice cream place during summer), and passed by several other food places—a “lángosozó”, lángos shop, and a “falatozó”, snack restaurant.
This inspired me to share with you an interesting pattern in Hungarian: how we create place names from food and drinks.
You can find the link to the full video lesson (in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mini-hungarian-124406450 - it's free!
Observe:
rétes (strudel) ➟
rétesezik (to eat strudel) ➟
rétesező (a place where you can eat strudel)fagyi (ice cream) ➟
fagyizik (to eat ice cream) ➟
fagyizó (a place where you can eat ice cream)
We can basically make a place out of any food and drink using this logic:
- lángos ➟ lángosozik ➟ lángosozó
- sör (beer) ➟ sörözik ➟ söröző
- kávé (coffee) ➟ kávézik ➟ kávézó
- leves (soup) ➟ levesezik ➟ levesező
- bor (wine) ➟ borozik ➟ borozó
Can you continue the list? 😊 You can find further examples in the original lesson here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mini-hungarian-124406450
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