Let’s LearnHungarian

B1 Intermediate

Real conversations: opinions, hypotheticals, reported speech, relative clauses, and telling a full story.

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By the end of B1 you can

  • give and justify an opinion, and compare things in detail
  • talk about hypothetical situations and report what someone else said
  • join ideas with relative clauses and handle formal, business Hungarian
  • narrate a complete story, start to finish, in natural spoken Hungarian

Unit 1: The wider world

Opinions, travel, nature, and Hungarian holidays.

  1. 54Opinions and comparisonsGiving your opinion, agreeing and disagreeing, and comparatives and superlatives in full.
  2. 55Travel and hotelsBooking a room, checking in, and the phrases you need at a hotel or on a trip.
  3. 56Nature and the environmentAnimals, plants, and simple opinions about protecting nature.
  4. 57Culture and holidaysHungarian holidays, birthdays, and the toasts and wishes for special occasions.

Unit 2: Real conversations

Hypotheticals, obligation, reported speech, requests, relative clauses, and doubt.

  1. 58Would, could, and hypotheticalsThe conditional mood: forming 'would' for any verb, lenne and volna, and real if-then sentences.
  2. 59Obligation and permissionkell, kellene, muszáj, lehet, szabad, and tud — what you must, should, may, and can do.
  3. 60Reported speech and hogy-clausesReporting what people say, think, hope, and fear using hogy ('that').
  4. 61The definite conjugationHungarian's other verb paradigm: how a definite object changes the verb ending.
  5. 62Wishes and requestsThe imperative mood, polite formal commands, and asking for what you want someone else to do.
  6. 63Relative clauses: who and whichaki (who) and ami (what/which), and how they take whatever case ending their role in the clause needs.
  7. 64Certainty and doubtbiztosan, valószínűleg, talán, lehet/kétlem + hogy..., and the vajon particle.

Unit 3: Advanced grammar

Narrative verb prefixes, impersonal statements, and causative verbs.

  1. 65Word order: putting the focus firstHow Hungarian word order shows emphasis, and why verb prefixes jump behind the verb.
  2. 66More verb prefixes for narrativeát- (across) and vissza- (back), and how prefixed verbs chain together to tell a story.
  3. 67The singing bird, the broken glass: participlesVerbs used as adjectives: -ó/-ő (doing), -t/-tt (done), and -andó/-endő (to be done).
  4. 68-kor, -ig, -ért, -ként, -vá: more case endingsAt (a time), until, for (something), as (a role), and into (a new state) — five more everyday endings.
  5. 69Impersonal statements and the missing passiveHow Hungarian gets by without a real passive voice: the impersonal 3rd plural, and az ember for a generic 'one'.
  6. 70Causative verbs: having something done-tat/-tet: the difference between doing something yourself and having someone else do it.

Unit 4: Practical situations and stories

Emergencies, formal Hungarian, idioms, and telling a full story.

  1. 71Emergencies and the doctorCalling for help, describing an accident, and handling a harder medical conversation.
  2. 72Formal HungarianBusiness and formal register — emails, meetings, and addressing people formally.
  3. 73Idioms and sayingsCommon Hungarian idiomatic expressions and proverbs, with what they really mean.
  4. 74Telling an anecdoteNarrating a full story: past tense, verb prefixes, sequencing, and reported speech together.