A biztosított lefényképezi a kárt.

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Breakdown of A biztosított lefényképezi a kárt.

• kár: damage or loss
• lefényképezni: to photograph something
• biztosított: an insured person

Questions & Answers about A biztosított lefényképezi a kárt.

What does biztosított mean here? Is it a person or a thing?

Biztosított literally means insured. In insurance language, a biztosított is very often used as a noun meaning the insured person / the insured party.

So here it most naturally means a person, not an object.

A useful detail: biztosított originally comes from the verb biztosít (to insure), so it is historically a participle, but in real usage it often behaves just like an ordinary noun.

Why is there a before both nouns?

A is the Hungarian definite article, meaning the.

So:

• a biztosított = the insured
• a kárt = the damage (with object marking; see below)

Hungarian uses the definite article with both subjects and objects when they are specific/known, just like English often does.

Also, Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

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

Since biztosított and kárt both begin with consonant sounds, the form is a.

Why is kár written as kárt here?