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Questions & Answers about Augusztusban utazunk.
What does Augusztusban mean exactly, and what does the ending -ban do?
Augusztusban means in August.
The ending -ban is a Hungarian case ending that often means in.
So:
- augusztus = August
- augusztusban = in August
Hungarian usually uses endings like this instead of separate prepositions such as in, on, or at.
Why is it -ban here and not -ben?
Hungarian has vowel harmony, which means suffixes change depending on the vowels in the word.
- -ban is used after words with mostly back vowels
- -ben is used after words with mostly front vowels
augusztus has back vowels, so it becomes augusztusban.
Compare:
- házban = in the house
- kertben = in the garden
So Augusztusban follows a very common Hungarian pattern.
Why is Augusztusban capitalized? Aren’t months lowercase in Hungarian?