Nevezés után megnézzük az útvonalat, bemelegítünk, majd öt kilométert futunk.

Nevezés után means after registration or after signing up.

The reason után comes after the noun is that Hungarian often uses postpositions instead of English-style prepositions. So where English says after registration, Hungarian literally says registration after:

• nevezés = registration, entry
• után = after

So:

• nevezés után = after registration
• ebéd után = after lunch
• munka után = after work

Hungarian often leaves out the article in expressions like this when the meaning is general, similar to English after registration rather than after the registration.

So:

• nevezés után = after registration / after signing up
• a nevezés után = after the registration

Both can be possible, but the version without the article sounds more like a general step in a sequence.

In Hungarian, the verb ending usually tells you the subject, so the pronoun is often omitted.

Here:

• megnézzük = we look at/check
• bemelegítünk = we warm up
• futunk = we run

Hungarian does have mi = we, but it is usually only added for emphasis or contrast. A neutral sentence normally just uses the verb ending.

Because Hungarian has two main verb conjugations: indefinite and definite.

Here the object is az útvonalat = the route, which is definite, so the verb uses the definite conjugation:

• megnézzük = we look at/check it/the definite thing
• megnézünk = we look at/check something indefinite, or no object is specified

Compare:

• Megnézzük az útvonalat. = We check the route.
• Megnézünk egy útvonalat. = We check a route.

This is one of the big differences between Hungarian and English.

The prefix meg- often gives the verb a sense of completion or a single completed action.

So:

• nézni = to look at, to watch
• megnézni = to look at something and finish doing so; to check out; to have a look at

In this sentence, megnézzük az útvonalat sounds like we check out the route or we take a look at the route, not just we are watching the route.

The exact effect of meg- depends on the verb, but very often it makes the action sound more bounded or completed.

Yes, but the position of the prefix depends on sentence structure.

In a neutral statement, the prefix usually stays attached to the verb:

• Megnézzük az útvonalat. = We check the route.

But in some contexts, the prefix moves after the verb, for example with focus, negation, or certain sentence types:

• Az útvonalat nézzük meg. = It’s the route that we check.
• Nem nézzük meg az útvonalat. = We don’t check the route.
• Nézzük meg az útvonalat! = Let’s check the route!

So megnézzük is the normal neutral form here.

The -t marks the accusative, which is usually the direct object.

• az útvonal = the route
• az útvonalat = the route (as the thing being looked at)

Since the route is what we check/look at, it takes the accusative ending.

This is very common in Hungarian:

• olvasom a könyvet = I read the book
• kérem a kávét = I’d like the coffee
• megnézzük az útvonalat = we check the route

Here bemelegítünk means we warm up in the sports/exercise sense.

It comes from bemelegít, which is related to meleg = warm. In athletic contexts, it means doing warm-up exercises before the main activity.

So in this sentence:

• bemelegítünk = we warm up

A natural English translation is we warm up, not something literal like we make warm in.

Majd here means then, after that, or next.

It helps show the sequence of actions:

1. after registration
2. we check the route
3. we warm up
4. then we run five kilometers

So it works as a sequencing word. It does not always mean a strict future tense marker. In this sentence, it simply connects the next step.

Here the -t marks an extent of distance.

With verbs like run, walk, swim, Hungarian often puts the distance in the accusative:

• öt kilométert futunk = we run five kilometers
• két órát alszom = I sleep for two hours
• három napot vártam = I waited three days

So this -t is very common not only for direct objects, but also for things like distance, duration, and other measured extents.

Because Hungarian, like English, often uses the present tense for routines, instructions, schedules, and planned actions.

English does this too:

• First we sign up, then we warm up, then we run.

Hungarian works the same way here:

• megnézzük
• bemelegítünk
• futunk

The present tense makes the sequence sound natural and immediate. It can describe something habitual, scheduled, or simply the next steps in an event.

Not completely. Hungarian word order is more flexible than English word order, and it often reflects topic, focus, and information structure rather than a rigid subject-verb-object pattern.

In this sentence, the order is natural because it presents the actions in sequence:

• Nevezés után = sets the time frame
• megnézzük az útvonalat
• bemelegítünk
• majd öt kilométert futunk

You can move things around, but the emphasis changes. For example:

• Az útvonalat megnézzük nevezés után.
  This puts more focus on the route.

So the sentence you have is a neutral, natural way to describe the order of events.