B1 · Intermediário Capítulo 33

Infinitives with Personal Endings

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Chapter in 30 Seconds

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.

O que você vai aprender

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.

Dicas e truques (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)

Vocabulário-chave (6)

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

Real-World Preview

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Leaving the office

Review Summary

  • Infinitive stem + possessive suffix + kell

Erros comuns

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

Wrong: Nekem kell menni.
Correto: Mennem kell.

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

Wrong: Mennünk kellenek.
Correto: 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.
Correto: 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

Prática rápida (3)

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)

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)

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)

Score: /3

Perguntas comuns (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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