A tűzhely rendkívül meleg.

In Hungarian, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense, third person singular, when the predicate is a noun or adjective.

So:

• A tűzhely meleg. = The stove is hot.
• not normally A tűzhely meleg van.

This is completely normal Hungarian grammar.

But in other persons or tenses, the verb appears:

• Meleg vagyok. = I am warm.
• A tűzhely meleg volt. = The stove was hot.

A is the Hungarian definite article, equivalent to English the.

So:

• a tűzhely = the stove

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a
• az

Which one is used depends on the following sound. Before a consonant, Hungarian usually uses a:

• a tűzhely

Before a vowel, it usually uses az:

• az alma = the apple

Tűzhely usually means stove, cooker, or cooking range.

It refers to the appliance used for cooking. Depending on context, English might translate it differently:

• stove
• cooker
• sometimes range

It does not specifically mean just the oven part. If you want to say oven, Hungarian more specifically uses sütő.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• tűzhely ≈ tyoozh-hey

A few important points:

• t before ű sounds somewhat like a soft ty to English ears
• ű is a long Hungarian vowel with no exact English equivalent
• zs is pronounced like the s in measure
• hely sounds roughly like hey, but with a lighter h

So the word is approximately:

tyoozh-hey

This is only an approximation, but it helps.

Rendkívül means extremely, exceptionally, or extraordinarily.

So:

• rendkívül meleg = extremely hot

It is a correct and fairly common word, but it sounds a bit more formal or stronger than everyday nagyon.

Compare:

• nagyon meleg = very hot
• rendkívül meleg = extremely hot

In everyday conversation, learners will probably hear nagyon more often.

Because rendkívül is an adverb modifying the adjective meleg.

Just like in English:

• extremely hot

the intensifier comes before the adjective.

So Hungarian uses:

• rendkívül meleg

not normally:

• meleg rendkívül

This word order is the natural one.

It can mean warm or hot, depending on context.

Hungarian meleg covers a range that in English may be translated in different ways:

• meleg tea = warm/hot tea
• meleg idő = warm weather
• A tűzhely meleg. = The stove is hot

With a stove, English usually prefers hot, because a stove being merely warm would sound weaker than what Hungarian often intends here.

So the best translation depends on the situation.

Hungarian adjectives do not agree with the noun in the same way they do in many European languages.

So the adjective stays the same:

• a meleg tűzhely
• a meleg szoba
• a meleg kövek

No masculine/feminine change, and no singular/plural agreement in this kind of use.

That is much simpler than in languages where adjectives have many endings.

Yes, absolutely.

That would mean:

• The stove is very hot

This is probably the more everyday, conversational version.

Compare:

• A tűzhely nagyon meleg. = The stove is very hot.
• A tűzhely rendkívül meleg. = The stove is extremely hot.

So rendkívül is stronger and a bit more formal, while nagyon is more neutral and common.

Yes, you could also say Rendkívül meleg a tűzhely.

Both are grammatical, but the emphasis changes:

• A tűzhely rendkívül meleg. = neutral statement about the stove
• Rendkívül meleg a tűzhely. = stronger focus on how hot it is

Hungarian word order is often influenced by focus and emphasis, not only by basic sentence structure.

So the original sentence is the neutral, straightforward version.

In the past tense, Hungarian uses the verb to be explicitly.

So:

• A tűzhely rendkívül meleg volt. = The stove was extremely hot.

Here volt means was.

This helps show an important rule:

• present tense, 3rd person adjective predicate: usually no van
• past tense: use volt

So the omission of is only happens in certain present-tense situations.