Learn Hardcore Hungarian: A pedagógiai program új.

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Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

In Hungarian, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense, third person when you are saying something like X is Y.

So in a sentence like this:

Hungarian does not normally say the equivalent of is.

But in other persons, the verb appears:

It also appears in the past or future:

What does a do here?

A is the definite article, meaning the.

So:

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

Examples:

In your sentence, the next word begins with p, a consonant sound, so the correct article is a.