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- "Az alma piros."
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So, to clarify, in Hungarian, does the adjective modifier in a constituent always precede the noun it modifies, as in English (and unlike in French, in which the adjective usually follows the noun it modifies)? Thus, "Az alma piros" is always translated as "The apple is red" and never "The red apple"?
According to what I've found, it either comes from the (now rarely used) word pír meaning "blush", or it was somehow created from a word that was used to describe the sound of fire. Either way, no relation to Greek.
Seems more likely, fire is only red in some drawings, irl its yellow/orange
To my understanding, piros is a lighter red and vörös means darker red, kind of like scarlet. So say red wine or blood would be vörös.
piros is for inanimate objects such as a red tomato, red car, etc. and vörös is for hair.
Hungarian is not in the romance language family, tracing Greek, Latin will have little or no relevance
