November hideg.

Because Hungarian often omits the verb meaning is in the present tense, third person singular when the predicate is a noun or an adjective.

So:

• November hideg. = November is cold.
• literally: November cold.

But in other tenses, Hungarian does use the verb:

• November hideg volt. = November was cold.
• November hideg lesz. = November will be cold.

Yes: in Hungarian, month names are normally written with a lowercase letter.

So normally you write:

• november

But here it is capitalized because it is the first word of the sentence:

• November hideg.

If the word appeared in the middle of a sentence, it would usually be:

• A november hideg. (though this wording is less natural in everyday speech)

Hideg is an adjective meaning cold.

In this sentence, it functions as a predicate adjective, describing the subject November.

So the structure is:

• November = subject
• hideg = predicate adjective

Hungarian does not need any extra ending on hideg here. The plain dictionary form is enough.

Because after a subject like November, Hungarian uses the basic adjective form for this kind of statement.

• hideg = cold
• hidegen usually means something more like coldly or can appear in other grammatical environments, but not as the normal predicate here.

So:

• November hideg. = correct
• November hidegen. = not correct for November is cold

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

• November -> NO-vehm-ber
• hideg -> HEE-deg

A few helpful notes:

• Hungarian h is always pronounced.
• i in hideg is like ee in see.
• e is usually like e in bed.
• Stress in Hungarian usually falls on the first syllable of each word:
  • NOvember
  • HIdeg

No, not in this sentence.

November hideg is a simple statement with November as the subject. Hungarian does not need an article here.

Compare:

• November hideg. = November is cold.

If you add a, you get a different-feeling structure, and in many contexts it sounds less like a simple neutral statement. For a learner, the article-free version is the one to remember here.

Yes, but the meaning or structure changes.

• November hideg. = a full sentence: November is cold.
• hideg november = usually a noun phrase, meaning a cold November

So word order matters a lot here:

• November hideg. -> subject + predicate
• hideg november -> adjective + noun

That is one of the most important things to notice in this example.

Not exactly. November hideg means November is cold, where November is treated as the subject.

If you specifically want to say It is cold in November, Hungarian very often says:

• Novemberben hideg van.

Breakdown:

• novemberben = in November
• hideg van = it is cold / there is cold

So:

• November hideg. = November is cold.
• Novemberben hideg van. = It is cold in November.

Both are possible ideas, but they are not structured the same way.

Because November is the subject of the sentence here, not a time expression.

Compare:

• November hideg. = November is cold.
  • November is the thing being described.

But:

• Novemberben hideg van. = It is cold in November.
  • novemberben means in November
  • -ben is the ending meaning in

So the presence or absence of -ben changes the role of the word.

You add nem before the adjective:

• November nem hideg. = November is not cold.

This is the normal way to negate a sentence like this.

In speech, Hungarian can often make a yes/no question mainly through intonation:

• November hideg? = Is November cold?

Because the present-tense is is omitted, the sentence can look the same in writing except for the question mark.

In natural conversation, the voice pattern helps show that it is a question.