A csatlakozó hibás.

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Breakdown of A csatlakozó hibás.

• hibás: faulty
• csatlakozó: a connector or socket

Questions & Answers about A csatlakozó hibás.

Why is there no word for is in A csatlakozó hibás?

In Hungarian, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense, third person, when one noun or adjective is being linked to another.

So:

• A csatlakozó hibás. = The connector is faulty.

But in other persons, Hungarian does use the verb:

• Hibás vagyok. = I am faulty / I am at fault.
• Hibás vagy. = You are faulty / at fault.

This omission is one of the most common things English speakers notice in simple Hungarian sentences.

What does a mean here?

A is the Hungarian definite article, meaning the.

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before consonant sounds
• az before vowel sounds

So:

• a csatlakozó = the connector
• az autó = the car

Since csatlakozó begins with cs, a consonant sound, Hungarian uses a.

What exactly does csatlakozó mean?