Ez családi jegy.

Ez means this.

In this sentence, it stands on its own as a pronoun, so the structure is basically:

• Ez = this
• családi jegy = family ticket

If you wanted to say this ticket, with a noun after it, you would usually say ez a jegy.

It is understood, not spoken.

Hungarian often leaves out the verb van (is / exists) in the present tense, third person when the sentence is something like X is Y.

So:

• Ez családi jegy. = This is a family ticket.

But in the past or future, or with other persons, a verb would appear:

• Ez családi jegy volt. = This was a family ticket.
• Ez családi jegy lesz. = This will be a family ticket.

This missing-is pattern is one of the most important things English speakers notice in Hungarian.

That is a very natural question.

Hungarian can sometimes omit egy in short identifying or classifying sentences, especially when the point is simply what type of thing something is.

So Ez családi jegy can be understood as a concise This is a family ticket.

However, Ez egy családi jegy is also possible, and many learners will first meet that fuller version. Adding egy can sound more explicitly like This is a family ticket in ordinary speech.

So the short version is not strange, but the fuller version with egy is also something you should know.

Családi means family or family-related as an adjective.

It comes from:

• család = family
• -i = a common adjective-forming ending

So:

• család = family
• családi = family / family-type / for families

In családi jegy, it describes the kind of ticket: a ticket intended for a family or family group.

Because családi is an adjective and jegy is a noun.

So this is simply:

• családi = family
• jegy = ticket
• családi jegy = family ticket

In Hungarian, adjective + noun combinations are normally written as two words.

In this sentence, jegy means ticket.

More generally, jegy is a broader word and can have several meanings depending on context, such as:

• ticket
• mark / grade in school
• note / sign / characteristic
• digit in mathematics

But in családi jegy, the meaning is clearly ticket.

This is a normal, straightforward word order.

• Ez = the thing being identified
• családi jegy = what it is

So the sentence simply presents: This = family ticket.

Hungarian word order is flexible, but changes in order often add emphasis or contrast. The version here is neutral and easy to understand.

A rough English-friendly pronunciation is:

ez chah-LAA-dee yehgy

A few useful points:

• e in ez is like e in bed
• cs is like ch in church
• á is a long a, like in father
• j is pronounced like English y
• gy is a soft Hungarian consonant with no exact English equivalent; in jegy it sounds somewhat like a very soft dy

Also, Hungarian stress is normally on the first syllable of each word:

• EZ
• CSAládi
• JEGY

Yes.

• ez = this
• az = that

So if the ticket is farther away, or you are referring to that one rather than this one, you would use az instead:

• Az családi jegy. = That is a family ticket.

You would say:

Ezek családi jegyek.

Breakdown:

• ez = this
• ezek = these
• jegy = ticket
• jegyek = tickets

And just like in the singular, the present-tense are is not spoken in this kind of sentence.

So:

• Ez családi jegy. = This is a family ticket.
• Ezek családi jegyek. = These are family tickets.