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Questions & Answers about A virágcserépben virágföld van, és vízelvezető nyílása is van.
What does a virágcserépben mean, and how is virágcserépben built?
A virágcserépben means in the flowerpot.
It breaks down like this:
- virág = flower
- cserép = pot, flowerpot
- virágcserép = flowerpot
- -ben = in
So virágcserépben literally means in flowerpot, and with a it becomes in the flowerpot.
Why is the ending -ben and not -ban?
This is because of vowel harmony.
Hungarian has two versions of many endings:
- -ban after back-vowel words
- -ben after front-vowel words
Here the last part of the compound is cserép, which has front vowels, so Hungarian uses -ben:
- virágcserépben = in the flowerpot
This is a very common pattern in Hungarian.
Why is there no article before virágföld?