Breakdown of Köszönjük a barátunknak a segítséget.
Questions & Answers about Köszönjük a barátunknak a segítséget.
A useful breakdown is:
- köszön-jük = thank
- we with the definite verb ending
- a = the
- barát-unk-nak = friend
- our
- to/for
- our
- a = the
- segítség-et = help
- accusative marker
So the sentence is built as:
We-thank + to-our-friend + the-help
That structure is more natural in Hungarian than copying the English pattern exactly.
Because Hungarian has two main conjugation patterns for many verbs:
Here, the direct object is a segítséget, which is a definite object, so the verb uses the definite 1st person plural form:
- köszönünk = we thank / we say hello, with no definite direct object
- köszönjük = we thank it / the specific thing
So köszönjük is used because a segítséget is specific and definite.