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Common adverbs

Two suffix families turn adjectives into adverbs. There’s no crisp rule for which adjective takes which — the pairings are absorbed word by word from input.

  • jó → jól (well)
  • rossz → rosszul (badly)
  • remek → remekül (superbly)
  • makacs → makacsul (stubbornly)
  • egyedül (alone)

This family also names the language you speak — which is why this site is called what it is:

  • magyar → magyarul (lit. Hungarianly)
  • angol → angolul · német → németül · finn → finnül

Beszélsz magyarul? — literally do you speak Hungarianly?

Vowel harmony picks the linker: front vowels → -en, back → -an/-on, vowel-final → -n:

  • gyors → gyorsan (quickly)
  • szép → szépen (beautifully, nicely)
  • csendes → csendesen (silently)
  • nagy → nagyon (very)
  • ritka → ritkán (rarely)
  • gyakran (frequently — from the now-unused adjective gyakor)

A few adjectives take either suffix with a meaning split — piszkos (dirty):

  • piszkosullike crazy (intensifier, figurative)
  • piszkosandirtily (literally, physically dirty)

The figurative/literal split is a recurring pattern worth noticing when both forms exist.