A hozzászólás rövid.

In Hungarian, the verb van (to be) is usually left out in the present tense when the subject is third person.

So:

• A hozzászólás rövid. = The comment is short.
• literally: The comment short.

This is completely normal Hungarian.

Compare:

• Én rövid vagyok. = I am short.
• Te rövid vagy. = You are short.
• A hozzászólás rövid. = The comment is short.

So the missing is is not an omission in the casual sense; it is just how Hungarian grammar works here.

A is the definite article, meaning the.

So:

• a hozzászólás = the comment

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before a consonant
• az before a vowel

For example:

• a hozzászólás = the comment
• az ablak = the window

Since hozzászólás begins with a consonant sound, Hungarian uses a.

Hozzászólás is a noun meaning something like:

• comment
• remark
• post
• contribution to a discussion

The exact English translation depends on context.

For example, online it often means comment. In a meeting or discussion, it could be more like remark or contribution.

It comes from the verb hozzászól, which means to comment, to speak up, or to add something to a discussion.

No—Hungarian adjectives do not agree with the noun in the same way they often do in many Indo-European languages.

Here rövid is a predicate adjective, meaning it describes the subject after an understood is:

• A hozzászólás rövid. = The comment is short.

The adjective stays in its basic form.

This is also true with many other examples:

• A ház nagy. = The house is big.
• A könyv érdekes. = The book is interesting.

So rövid does not need any special ending here.

Rövid is an adjective meaning short.

It can be used:

• attributively (before a noun):
  rövid hozzászólás = a short comment

• predicatively (as the description of the subject):
  A hozzászólás rövid. = The comment is short.

So in your sentence, it is functioning as a predicate adjective.

Yes, you could say Rövid a hozzászólás, but the emphasis changes.

• A hozzászólás rövid. is the more neutral version: The comment is short.
• Rövid a hozzászólás. puts more focus on short: The comment is short / It’s the comment that is short / The comment is short, actually.

Hungarian word order is often influenced by focus and information structure, not just by rigid subject-verb-object patterns.

So both are grammatical, but they are not always identical in tone.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• hozzászólás ≈ hozzaa-so-laash
• rövid ≈ ruh-vid, but with ö, a rounded vowel that English does not really have

A few useful points:

• á is a long vowel
• ó is a long vowel
• ö is different from plain o
• sz is pronounced like English s
• zs is pronounced like the s in measure
• double consonants are pronounced longer

So in hozzászólás, the spelling reflects real sound differences, and vowel length matters.

Yes, they matter a lot. In Hungarian, accent marks are part of the spelling and usually show a different vowel quality and/or length.

For example:

• a and á are different vowels
• o, ó, ö, and ő are all distinct
• u, ú, ü, and ű are also distinct

So you should not think of the accents as optional pronunciation hints. They are real parts of the word.

In your sentence:

• hozzászólás contains long vowels
• rövid contains ö, which is different from o

Changing or omitting accents can produce the wrong word or make your Hungarian look incorrect.

It is in the nominative case, which is the basic dictionary form of the noun.

In this sentence, a hozzászólás is the subject:

• A hozzászólás rövid.
  = The comment is short.

There is no special case ending here because the noun is simply functioning as the subject of the sentence.

You would say:

• A hozzászólás nem rövid.

Here nem means not.

So the pattern is:

• A hozzászólás rövid. = The comment is short.
• A hozzászólás nem rövid. = The comment is not short.

This is a very useful pattern in Hungarian.

You would say:

• A hozzászólások rövidek.

Breakdown:

• a = the
• hozzászólások = comments
• rövidek = short (plural predicate adjective)

This is worth noticing because in the plural, the adjective in predicate position often takes a plural ending:

• A könyvek érdekesek. = The books are interesting.
• A hozzászólások rövidek. = The comments are short.

So singular:

• A hozzászólás rövid.

Plural:

• A hozzászólások rövidek.