Let’s LearnHungarian

Lesson 3 of 19

Your family and your Hungarian ancestor

This is likely the single most useful lesson in this course: describing your Hungarian ancestor is very likely to come up, since it's the whole basis of your claim.

The pattern is reusable for any ancestor and any place: [family member] + [place]-ban/-ben született ('was born in [place]'), and [year]-ban/-ben [place]-ba/-be költözött ('moved to [place] in [year]').

By the end you can:

  • name your close and extended family members
  • say where and when your ancestor was born
  • describe when and why your ancestor emigrated

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