Questions & Answers about Emlékszem a jelszóra.
Because the verb emlékszik (emlékszem = I remember) does not take a direct object in Hungarian. Instead, it “governs” the sublative case -ra/-re, roughly “remember onto / with regard to.”
So you say emlékszem valamire (I remember something), not emlékszem valamit.
-ra/-re is the sublative case, used here because emlékszik requires it: valami-re/ra emlékszik.
It’s -ra because of vowel harmony: jelszó has back vowels (e is neutral, but ó is back), so the back-vowel version -ra is chosen: jelszó + ra → jelszóra.
No. Hungarian a/az is the definite article and means the.
- a jelszó = the password
- az alma = the apple (uses az before a vowel sound)
So =