Az orvos megjelenik a találkozón.

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Breakdown of Az orvos megjelenik a találkozón.

• orvos: the doctor
• találkozó: the meeting
• megjelenni: to appear or be published

Questions & Answers about Az orvos megjelenik a találkozón.

Why is it az orvos and not a orvos?

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

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

Since orvos begins with o, you use az.

So:

• az orvos = the doctor
• a találkozó = the meeting / the appointment

Does orvos mean a male doctor?

No. Orvos is gender-neutral. Hungarian nouns do not normally show grammatical gender, so orvos can mean doctor regardless of whether the person is male or female.

If you need to specify sex, Hungarian does that separately, for example with extra words, not through the noun itself.

What exactly does megjelenik mean here?

Here megjelenik means something like:

• appears
• shows up
• turns up
• attends (depending on context)

With a person and an event like a meeting, it usually means the person shows up / is present there, not that they magically materialize.

In other contexts, megjelenik can also mean appears in a more general sense, or even is published / comes out.

What does the prefix meg- add to jelenik?