Hunglish

Examples in English

• Use of verbs with inappropriate prepositional phrases '. A wide variety of grammatical cases are used in Hungarian to express verb objects; these cases are then mistranslated based on common English translations in other contexts.
• Failure to capitalize proper nouns '. Proper nouns are less frequently capitalized in Hungarian than in English.
• Omission of the word is '.
• Ungrammatical use of reflexive pronouns .
• Use of third-person pronouns in the wrong gender '. Hungarian has only one third-person pronoun, ő, used for both male and female genders.
• Failure to use the imperfect tense, which does not exist in Hungarian .
• Overuse of the definite article the .''

  Examples in Hungarian

• The Hungarian word karakter traditionally means "personality," but is now often used as in English to mean "character" as in "the main character of the novel."
• Words which are capitalized in English but traditionally not in Hungarian, such as days of the week and nationalities, are increasingly capitalized in Hungarian as well.
• Idővonal, a calque of the English "timeline" is increasingly used in place of the more traditional words időrend and kronológia.
• Terms that are split into two words in English are increasingly also split in Hungarian, such as szoftver fejlesztő in place of the more traditional szoftverfejlesztő.
• Egérpad is often used to mean "mouse pad," superseding the original term egéralátét. Some Hungarians object to this term because the Hungarian pad means "bench," and egérpad therefore literally translates to "mouse bench."