A kezelés sikeres.

the

Breakdown of A kezelés sikeres.

• kezelés: treatment
• sikeres: successful

Questions & Answers about A kezelés sikeres.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

In Hungarian, the verb van (to be) is usually left out in the present tense when the sentence has a noun or adjective as its predicate.

So:

A kezelés sikeres.
literally looks like The treatment successful, but it means The treatment is successful.

The verb shows up in other tenses:

A kezelés sikeres volt. = The treatment was successful.

What does a mean here, and why is it a instead of az?

A is the definite article, like the in English.

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before a consonant sound
• az before a vowel sound

Since kezelés starts with k, you use a:

a kezelés = the treatment

What kind of word is kezelés?

Kezelés is a noun.

It comes from the verb kezel, which can mean to treat, to handle, or to manage, depending on context.

The ending -és is a very common noun-forming ending in Hungarian. It often creates nouns that correspond to English words like:

• treatment
• handling
• management
• sometimes something like -ing or -tion

So kezelés is the noun form built from kezel.