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Hungarian Gender

This page discusses the gender in Hungarian. Below is a list of masculine (man) and feminine (woman) words. We picked the most popular ones.

Boy: fiú
Girl: lány
Man: férfi
Woman:
Father: apa
Mother: anya
Brother: fiútestvér or fivér. Older brother: báty, younger brother: öcs
Sister: lánytestvér. Older sister: nővér, younger sister: húg
Actor: színész
Actress: színésznő
Cat (m): macska
Cat (f): macska

These examples show a sentence with both genders (masculine or feminine). The list includes the use of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.

He is tall: (Ő) magas
She is tall: (Ő) magas
He is a short man: Ő egy alacsony férfi.
She is a short woman: Ő egy alacsony nő
He is German: ő német
She is German: ő német
Japanese men are friendly: A japán férfiak barátságosak
Japanese women are friendly: A japán nők barátságosak

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