B1 · Intermedio Capítulo 33

Infinitives with Personal Endings

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Master the art of expressing obligation and necessity by personalizing your infinitives.

  • Identify the personal suffixes attached to the infinitive form.
  • Construct sentences expressing personal duty like 'I must go'.
  • Distinguish between general necessity and specific personal obligation.
Personalize your duty, own your obligations.

Lo que aprenderás

Using 'kellene mennem' (I should go). Conjugating the infinitive to show the subject.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

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    By the end you will be able to: express personal obligations using the 'kell' + personal infinitive construction.

Consejos y trucos (1)

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Focus on the suffix

Don't try to memorize the whole word. Just learn the suffixes -m, -d, -i, -ünk, -etek, -iük.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Personal Infinitives (mennem, menned)

Vocabulario clave (6)

kell must / need to mennem for me to go feladat task fontos important gyorsan quickly befejeznem for me to finish

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Leaving the office

Review Summary

  • Infinitive stem + possessive suffix + kell

Errores comunes

While 'Nekem kell menni' is understood, using the personal suffix 'mennem' is much more natural and idiomatic in Hungarian.

Wrong: Nekem kell menni.
Correcto: Mennem kell.

The word 'kell' is an impersonal verb and never changes form to match the subject pluralization.

Wrong: Mennünk kellenek.
Correcto: Mennünk kell.

When using the third person, ensure you use the correct vowel harmony and suffix (-a/-e or -ja/-je) for the infinitive stem.

Wrong: Menne kell.
Correcto: Mennie kell.

Next Steps

You are handling complex sentence structures like a pro now. Keep going, your Hungarian is becoming incredibly sophisticated!

Translate 5 daily tasks into Hungarian using personal infinitives.

Continue to: Relative Clauses and Pronouns

Práctica rápida (3)

Correct the sentence.

Find and fix the mistake:

Nekem menni kell.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Nekem mennem kell
Suffix must match the subject.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Personal Infinitives (mennem, menned)

Fill in the blank with the correct personal infinitive.

Nekem ___ (menni) kell.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: mennem
The subject is 'nekem' (I), so use -m.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Personal Infinitives (mennem, menned)

Choose the correct form.

Neked ___ (tanulni) kell.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: tanulnod
The subject is 'neked' (you), so use -d.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Personal Infinitives (mennem, menned)

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Preguntas frecuentes (2)

Yes, 'Kell egy toll' (I need a pen). But for verbs, use the personal infinitive.
The final 'i' of the infinitive is dropped before adding the suffix.
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