Questions & Answers about A bérlő itt van.
What does bérlő mean exactly?
Bérlő means tenant or renter: a person who rents a flat, house, room, office, and so on.
It comes from the verb bérel, meaning to rent / lease. The ending -ő often makes a noun for a person who does the action, so bérlő is literally something like the one who rents.
Why does the sentence start with A?
A is the Hungarian definite article, meaning the.
So:
- A bérlő = the tenant
- Egy bérlő = a tenant
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, and before a vowel, it usually uses az.
Since bérlő begins with a consonant, the correct form is a.
Why is it itt van and not just a single word for is here?