"Who can paint?"

Translation: Ki tud festeni?

[WinningFields]

Difference between "fest" and "festek"?

[Shamarth]

They're conjugations of the same verb:

• én festek
• te festesz
• ő fest
• mi festünk
• ti festetek
• ők festenek

Or did you mean "festék"? That's paint as a noun.

"Nem tudok festeni, mert nincs elég festék." -- "I can't paint because there's not enough paint."

[WinningFields]

Ok, merci!
Other question "Nem tudok festeni." could be translated with "I am not able to paint? (I'm not an artist)"?

And I like the idea that where you are painting something, you help to made it "hard(er)"/"better"/"more resistant" >>> "fest"/"fester" in german.

[Shamarth]

Yes, it can mean that as well. "Nem tudok festeni" -- either because the circumstances prevent me from being able to do that, or because I don't know how to do it.

Nice mnemonic! :)

[WinningFields]

But the best hungarian mnemonic I found is "Eselsbrücke" = "pont aux anes" [pontosanne] => the hungarian word "pontosan" [pontoschann] means "ganz/punkt genau"/"exactly"...

[ilinniartoq]

The infinitive ending is usually ni; is it eni here because of the consonant cluster fest ends in? I'd assumed festni was the correct form, but apparently not!

[MrtonPolgr]

You made me realize this is not even trivial since látni and futni indeed but -ít verbs take an extra vowel (építeni, borítani)… for fest, I don't think an stn consonant cluster would ever happen as long as you have the opportunity to avoid it.

[Thomas_Hubbard]

How is this different from "tudja festeni?"

[MrtonPolgr]

"Can he/her/it/{formal you, singular} paint it?"

[Thomas_Hubbard]

So, since it's asking who can do it, then it's "tud?"

[MrtonPolgr]

It depends on the object whether it's "tud" or "tudja". If there is no object to begin with, it's "tud". In "tudja festeni" / "ki tudja festeni" / whatever, there is an implied definite object, an "it" basically.