Indefinite Conjugation

One of the peculiarities of the Hungarian language is that the form of the inflected verb reveals who performs the given action.

Therefore, whatever the tense, we distinguish between two types of conjugation, the general (subject) and the definite (object) form.

In general conjugation, verbs can be both transitive and intransitive, where an object never follows the inflected form of intransitive verbs. In the case of transitive verbs, the conjugation can be both general (subject) and definite (object).

Examples of intransitive verbs: történni, jönni, menni, etc.

Let's take the verb jönni, the form of which changes as follows when conjugation:

én jövök
te jössz
ő jön
mi jövünk
ti jöttök
ők jönnek

As an example of a transitive verb, let's take the general conjugational forms of the verb (olvasni):

én olvasok
te olvasol
ő olvas
mi olvasunk
ti olvastok
ők olvasnak