Questions & Answers about A tároló két négyzetméter.
What does tároló mean exactly?
Tároló usually means storage room, storage space, or storage unit, depending on context.
So in this sentence, A tároló két négyzetméter. means that the storage space has an area of two square meters.
Why is there no word for is in the sentence?
In Hungarian, the verb to be is often left out in the present tense, third person when the predicate is a noun, adjective, or measurement.
So:
- A tároló két négyzetméter. = The storage room is two square meters.
This is completely normal Hungarian.
But in other tenses, the verb appears:
- A tároló két négyzetméter volt. = The storage room was two square meters.
Why does the sentence start with a?
A is the Hungarian definite article, meaning the.
Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:
- a before a consonant
- az before a vowel
Since tároló starts with t, the sentence uses a tároló = the storage room.