A barátaim már itt vannak.

to be

Breakdown of A barátaim már itt vannak.

• itt: here
• barát: the friend
• már: already

Questions & Answers about A barátaim már itt vannak.

Can you break the sentence down word by word?

Yes:

• A = the
• barátaim = my friends
• már = already / by now
• itt = here
• vannak = are

A very literal gloss would be:

• The my-friends already here are

But the natural English sentence is simply:

• My friends are already here

Why is it A and not Az?

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before a consonant
• az before a vowel

Since barátaim starts with b, a consonant, the correct form is a.

At the beginning of the sentence it is capitalized, so you see A.

Why is there a definite article at all? English would just say my friends, not the my friends.