A fényérzékenység nagy.

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Breakdown of A fényérzékenység nagy.

• az: the
• fényérzékenység: light sensitivity in photography

Questions & Answers about A fényérzékenység nagy.

Why does the sentence start with a?

A is the Hungarian definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• a fényérzékenység = the light sensitivity / the photosensitivity

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before consonant sounds
• az before vowel sounds

Since fényérzékenység starts with a consonant sound, Hungarian uses a.

Why is nagy after fényérzékenység? In English, adjectives usually go before the noun.

Here nagy is not directly modifying the noun inside a noun phrase. It is the predicate adjective of the sentence.

So the structure is:

• A fényérzékenység = the subject
• nagy = the predicate adjective, meaning is great/high/large

In English, we say:

• The photosensitivity is high

not:

• The high photosensitivity

Hungarian works the same way here. When the adjective is part of the predicate, it comes after the subject.

Is there a missing word for is in this sentence?