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Learn Hardcore Hungarian: A határidő novemberben lesz. - The deadline will be in November.

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A határidő novemberben lesz.

Word

A határidő novemberben lesz.

Meaning

The deadline will be in November.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Hungarian

Lesson

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Breakdown of A határidő novemberben lesz.

Questions & Answers about A határidő novemberben lesz.

Does A here mean English a?

No. Hungarian a means the, not English a/an.

So A határidő means the deadline.

It is capitalized here only because it is the first word of the sentence. In the middle of a sentence, it would normally be a.

Why is it a határidő and not az határidő?

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

a before a consonant sound
az before a vowel sound

Since határidő starts with h, you use a:

a határidő

If the next word began with a vowel, you would use az instead.

Why is határidő not changed in any way?

Because határidő is the subject of the sentence, so it stays in its basic dictionary form, the nominative singular.

Here, határidő is simply deadline / the deadline. There is no special ending on it because it is not being marked as an object, possession, destination, and so on.

What does novemberben mean literally, and why is it one word?

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Novemberben is made of:

november = November
-ben = in

Hungarian usually uses suffixes instead of separate prepositions. So where English says in November, Hungarian says novemberben as one word.

This is very common:

januárban = in January
májusban = in May
novemberben = in November

Why is the ending -ben and not -ban?

This is because of vowel harmony, an important Hungarian pattern.

Hungarian suffixes often have two versions:

-ban
-ben

Words with front vowels usually take -ben, and words with back vowels usually take -ban.

Since november has front vowels, it takes -ben:

novemberben

A back-vowel example:

házban = in the house

What case is novemberben?

It is in the inessive case, which often expresses the idea of in.

So novemberben literally means in November.

The inessive endings are:

-ban
-ben

You will see this case a lot with places and time expressions.

Why is lesz used here?

Lesz is the 3rd person singular future form of lenni / van, the verb to be.

So:

lesz = will be

That is why the sentence uses lesz to refer to a future time.

A useful basic comparison:

van = is
lesz = will be

Could Hungarian also use the present tense here?

Sometimes, yes. Hungarian often uses the present tense for scheduled or expected future events, especially in everyday speech.

So a present-tense version may also be possible in context, but lesz makes the future meaning very explicit.

Using lesz is a clear, straightforward way to say that the deadline will fall in November.

Why is novemberben before lesz?

That is a normal Hungarian word order.

Hungarian word order is more flexible than English word order, and it often depends on topic and focus, not just basic grammar.

In A határidő novemberben lesz, the sentence starts with a határidő as the topic, and then gives the new information.

You could also say:

Novemberben lesz a határidő.

That version puts more emphasis on November, as if answering When will the deadline be?

Why is there no article before novemberben?

In simple time expressions with months, Hungarian usually does not use an article.

So you normally say:

novemberben = in November

not something like a novemberben in this kind of sentence.

Month names usually appear without an article when they are just naming the time.

Why is november lowercase?

Because in Hungarian, the names of months are normally not capitalized.

So Hungarian writes:

november
január
május

This is different from English, where November is capitalized.

It would only be capitalized in Hungarian if it came at the beginning of a sentence or in a special title-like context.

How is határidő pronounced?

A rough guide:

ha-TAA-ri-dő

A few useful points:

stress is always on the first syllable in Hungarian
á is a long vowel
ő is also a long vowel

So the stress is on ha, even though tá has a long vowel.

Is this sentence natural Hungarian?

Yes, it is grammatical and natural.

It is a simple, clear sentence for saying that the deadline will be in November.

Depending on context, a Hungarian speaker might also choose a different word order for emphasis, but this version is perfectly normal.

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