Breakdown of A fűszernövény virágcserepe kicsi.
Questions & Answers about A fűszernövény virágcserepe kicsi.
In Hungarian, the present-tense verb to be is usually omitted in the third person singular and plural when the predicate is a noun or adjective.
So:
- A fűszernövény virágcserepe kicsi. = The herb’s flowerpot is small.
Hungarian does not normally say van here.
But in other tenses, or with other persons, the verb appears:
- A virágcserép kicsi volt. = The flowerpot was small.
- Kicsi vagyok. = I am small.
Virágcserép is the basic dictionary form, meaning flowerpot.
Virágcserepe is a possessed form meaning roughly its flowerpot or the flowerpot of it.
Here, the possessor is a fűszernövény:
- a fűszernövény virágcserepe = the herb’s flowerpot
So the possessive ending on virágcserepe is what shows the relationship.