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Card types & note setup

One good note type carries you for years. Set it up once.

Field Contents
Sentence The Hungarian sentence, target word bolded
Target The word as it appeared (e.g. házamban)
DictForm Dictionary form / szótári alak (e.g. ház)
Definition EN gloss or (later) HU definition
Audio Sentence audio if available
Image Screenshot from the source — context is memory glue
Source Where you mined it (optional, but great for motivation archaeology)

Front: Sentence (+ Audio). Back: everything.

One direction only — recognition. Production cards (EN→HU) double your reviews for marginal benefit at Stage 1–2; output practice does that job better later.

  • Always fill DictForm. The skill you’re training is connecting inflected forms to stems — the exact skill Hungarian demands thousands of times per book.
  • Bold the target including its suffixes (**házamban**, not **ház**amban) — you’re learning the form in its habitat.
  • For verbs with preverbs, note the split behavior in the sentence if it occurs (el is megyek) — mined examples teach this better than any rule.

Pass = you understood the sentence and the target’s meaning. You do not need to recall every nuance of the definition field. Grading strictly on trivia is how decks become hated.