A recepciós itt van.

to be

Breakdown of A recepciós itt van.

• itt: here
• az: the
• recepciós: a receptionist

Questions & Answers about A recepciós itt van.

What does a mean here, and why is it a instead of az?

A is the definite article, so it means the.

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before a consonant sound
• az before a vowel sound

Since recepciós starts with r, you use a: a recepciós.

If the next word started with a vowel, you would use az instead, for example az orvos.

What kind of word is recepciós?

Here, recepciós is a noun meaning receptionist.

It refers to the person who works at a reception desk, front desk, or similar place. It is related to recepció meaning reception, but in this sentence you should just learn recepciós as the full noun for the person.

Does recepciós tell me whether the receptionist is male or female?

No. Hungarian nouns usually do not mark grammatical gender.

So a recepciós can mean either:

• a male receptionist
• a female receptionist

Usually the context tells you who is meant. Hungarian does not work like languages that have separate masculine and feminine noun forms for most professions.

What exactly does itt mean?