Word
Áprilisban utazunk.
Meaning
We travel in April.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Áprilisban utazunk.
What does -ban mean in Áprilisban?
-ban is a suffix meaning in.
So:
- április = April
- áprilisban = in April
Hungarian often uses suffixes where English uses separate prepositions like in, on, or at.
Why is it -ban and not -ben?
This is because of vowel harmony, a very important feature of Hungarian.
The suffix has two versions:
- -ban
- -ben
Words with back vowels usually take -ban, and words with front vowels usually take -ben.
Április contains the back vowel á, so it takes -ban:
- áprilisban
Even though the word also has i vowels, the presence of á makes the back-vowel version natural here.
Why doesn’t the sentence include a separate word for we?