"Férfiakat akarok!"
Translation:I want men!
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Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight! Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away...?
Any particular reason as to why vowel harmony doesn't apply to the two suffixes in ferfiakat?
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Well... When a word ends with a vowel other than a, e and i, you simply add -k to form a plural. If a word ends in -a or -e, you replace it with -ák or -ék, respectively. Words ending in -i do not have such a precise rule; férfi gets -ak and becomes férfiak in plural. The other suffixes are then added to férfiak in correspondence with the rules, so you get férfiakat for accusative.
Férfi is just one of those words, honestly. Probably not unrelated to fiú (from what I know, it used to be férfiú which does exist as a pretentious-sounding rare word).
The current theory is that some instances of i in Hungarian were a back vowel in Proto-Uralic, similar to Turkish ı or the Russian ery. Hence also hívnak.
I started laughing before I read it in English and I felt my brain divide into two.
This would be a rather unusual pronunciation of takarók, the o was quite clearly short.
Funny enough, my boyfriend is Hungarian, so this phrase is totally legit xD
I am getting the phrases "I like boys", "I want men" and "I dont like these women" consecutively. I am getting the idea that someone in the dev team doesn't mind expressing their opinion
