Let’s LearnHungarian

Lesson 33 of 74 · B1, Unit 2: Real conversations

Reported speech and hogy-clauses

hogy is Hungarian's all-purpose 'that', hooking a full sentence onto a verb of saying, thinking, or feeling: Azt mondta, hogy fáradt. ('He said that he was tired.') The clause after hogy is just a normal sentence.

Many verbs point forward to their hogy-clause with azt ('that thing', the accusative of az): Azt hiszem, hogy... , Azt mondta, hogy... — azt is doing the same job English 'that' does in 'I think that...'.

By the end you can:

  • introduce a subordinate clause with hogy ('that')
  • report what someone said, thinks, hopes, or is afraid of
  • recognise -e attached to a verb for a reported yes/no question ('whether')

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