Latin Name |
English role |
Endings
|
Demonstrative Pronouns |
Personal Pronouns |
Allative
|
towards, to
|
Vowel harmony
|
|
- hozzám
- hozzád
- hozzá / Önhöz
|
- hozzánk
- hozzátok
- hozzájuk / Önökhöz
|
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This is the
movement towards member of the
triad, applicable to solids.
Compare to:
|
Ágihoz
megyek.
I am going to(wards) Agi.
|
|
Áginál
vagyok.
I am at/by (the house of, or stood by) Ági.
|
|
Ágitól
jöttem.
I came from (the house of, or being next to) Ági.
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Application of this case implies that an object is solid and that you are not (going towards/coming from) inside it.
This is often translated as "to" but this is can be unhelpful. In terms of
movement, it's better to think of it as "towards".
Hungarians don't say that they gave a present to their mother (using -hoz), they
say that the gave a present for their moth (using
-nak).
Compared to London,
Totternhoe
is small. See also
compared to