A hangerő túl nagy.

In Hungarian, the verb van (to be) is usually left out in the present tense when the subject is third person singular or plural and the predicate is a noun, adjective, or adverb.

So:

• A hangerő túl nagy. = The volume is too high/loud.

But in other persons, Hungarian does use the verb:

• Túl nagy vagyok. = I am too big.
• Túl nagy vagy. = You are too big.

So the missing is here is completely normal.

A is the definite article, meaning the.

So:

• a hangerő = the volume

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before consonant sounds
• az before vowel sounds

Examples:

• a könyv = the book
• az autó = the car

Since hangerő starts with h, you use a.

Hangerő means volume.

It is made from:

• hang = sound, voice
• erő = strength, force

So literally it is something like sound strength.

This is a very common Hungarian word for the volume of a TV, phone, speaker, music, etc.

Túl means too, in the sense of excessively.

In Hungarian, words like too, very, quite, etc. normally come before the adjective or adverb they modify.

So:

• túl nagy = too big / too high
• nagyon nagy = very big
• elég nagy = big enough / quite big

That is why the sentence is:

• A hangerő túl nagy.

not something with túl after nagy.

Yes, nagy basically means big or large.

But languages do not always describe things in the same way. In Hungarian, volume is often talked about as being big or small, especially in sentences like this.

So:

• A hangerő nagy. = The volume is high / loud.
• A hangerő kicsi. = The volume is low.

This may feel unusual to an English speaker, since English often uses loud, quiet, high, or low depending on context.

Because nagy is not directly describing the noun inside the noun phrase. It is the predicate of the sentence.

This sentence is structured like:

• A hangerő = the subject
• túl nagy = the predicate adjective

So it means:

• The volume is too high.

Compare:

• A hangerő túl nagy. = The volume is too high.
• a nagy hangerő = the high volume / the loud volume

In the second example, nagy comes before the noun because it is being used attributively—that is, directly modifying the noun.

Not exactly.

Hangerő means volume, not sound in general.

So the sentence is specifically about the volume level being too high, not necessarily about a person, instrument, or noise simply being loud.

Closer translations would be:

• The volume is too high.
• The volume is too loud.

Yes, Túl nagy a hangerő is also correct.

Hungarian word order is flexible, and moving an element to the front often gives it more focus or emphasis.

Compare:

• A hangerő túl nagy. = neutral statement
• Túl nagy a hangerő. = emphasis on too high

Both are natural. The second may sound a bit more like The volume is too high with extra stress on the problem.

In normal standard Hungarian, no—you would normally say:

• A hangerő túl nagy.

Leaving out the article may sound incomplete or unnatural as a full sentence.

However, in very informal contexts, labels, notes, warnings, or clipped speech, article-dropping can happen more easily. But for a learner, the safe standard form is:

• A hangerő túl nagy.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• hang-erő

Some helpful points:

• Stress in Hungarian is always on the first syllable, so: HAN-gerő
• g is a hard g, as in go
• ő is a long Hungarian vowel that does not exist in normal English

The ő sound is like a long, rounded front vowel—roughly similar to the vowel in German schön, but held longer.

So the whole word is pronounced with the stress at the start, not on the ending.

This is an important difference:

• túl nagy = too big / excessively big
• nagyon nagy = very big

So:

• A hangerő túl nagy. = The volume is too high
  → there is a problem; it should be lower

• A hangerő nagyon nagy. = The volume is very high
  → just a description; not necessarily saying it is a problem

So túl usually implies more than is acceptable or desirable.

A common opposite would be:

• A hangerő túl kicsi. = The volume is too low.

Here:

• kicsi = small

So the pair is:

• A hangerő túl nagy. = The volume is too high.
• A hangerő túl kicsi. = The volume is too low.

You might also hear other expressions in real life, but this is the most direct opposite using the same pattern.

It is singular.

• A hangerő túl nagy. = The volume is too high.

If you wanted the plural volumes, that would be different, but in this context Hungarian normally uses the singular because it refers to one volume setting or one general level of sound.

So this sentence is talking about the volume, not the volumes.