Word
Valahányszor az olvasóterembe megyek, folyóiratot olvasok.
Meaning
Whenever I go to the reading room, I read a periodical.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Valahányszor az olvasóterembe megyek, folyóiratot olvasok.
olvasni
to read
menni
to go
az
the
olvasóterem
a reading room
Questions & Answers about Valahányszor az olvasóterembe megyek, folyóiratot olvasok.
What does valahányszor mean, and how is it used?
Valahányszor means whenever, every time that, or more literally as many times as.
In this sentence, it introduces a repeated situation:
Valahányszor az olvasóterembe megyek, folyóiratot olvasok.
= Whenever I go to the reading room, I read a journal / magazine.
It is a conjunction that starts a subordinate clause, similar to English whenever.
It can sound a little more formal or literary than some other everyday ways of expressing the same idea.
Why is it az olvasóterembe and not a olvasóterembe?
Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:
- a before consonant sounds
- az before vowel sounds
Because olvasóterembe begins with the vowel o, Hungarian uses az:
- az olvasóterembe
Compare:
- a könyvtárba = into the library
- az iskolába = into the school
What does the ending -be in olvasóterembe mean?