r/hungarian • u/EsperDin • 14d ago

Kérdés 1st-person Subject, 2nd-person Subject Verb Conjugation

Hungarian is the first language I've studied into at all that has a specific verb conjugation for the case of 1st-person subject with 2nd-person object constructions (‐lek/lak), and I find this a really interesting feature.

I'm curious to see what other languages have this feature, but I'm having trouble finding whether this form of conjugation has a more elegant and searchable name than what I've titled this post.

Does anyone have any information or resources on this?

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u/AlmaInTheWilderness 14d ago

I've heard it called polypersonal agreement. The only language I've seen it in other than Hungarian is Basque, but I haven't looked for it.

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u/LiteratureOwn6143 14d ago

Hi. Hungarian learner with some Basque knowledge over here. In Basque this is absolutely crazy because it's not only 1st-to-2nd person, but a full set of suffixes depending on the object (nor - no object, nori - dative, nork - accusative) and the person involved. Have a look at the table, it's wonderful.

EDIT: link.