Questions & Answers about A város lakossága nagy.
Why does the sentence start with A?
A is the definite article, meaning the.
Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:
- a before most consonants
- az before vowels
So A város means the city.
Why is it város lakossága instead of something more like the population of the city?
Hungarian usually expresses this kind of relationship with a possessor + possessed noun structure.
So:
- város = city
- lakossága = its population / population of it
Together, a város lakossága means:
- the city's population
- or the population of the city
This is very natural in Hungarian. Instead of using a separate word like English of, Hungarian often marks possession on the second noun.
What does the ending -a in lakossága mean?