"Férfiakat keresel?"

Translation: Are you looking for men?

[chip284801]

Of course, who isn't?

[Sean_Roy]

For some, it's a never-ending process.

[NiallOLear]

What makes this a question? I don't hear a question intonation in the recording like one would expect in English. Is it the "el" ending of keresel?

[jsiehler]

The question intonation is there. You can hear a rise in pitch on the next-to-last syllable: Férfiakat ker ES el?. English would end with the pitch rising; Hungarian has an ↗︎↘︎ pitch pattern beginning on the next-to-last syllable. (Except very short one-syllable questions obviously.)

In writing, the only difference between this sentence and the declarative
Férfiakat keresel. is the punctuation at the end.

[SusanRankin1]

So fascinating! Hungarian is so far from my other language experiences that it seems everything needs clarification! VERY challenging! Thanks for letting us in on it!

[didi848684]

Is -el (2nd person ending) not past tense?

[Kraus85]

I haven't reach past time yet but it looks like this is the "normal" indefinite present for 2nd singular person. Guess this verb is irregular since it doesn't end with -sz like others i've seen so far?

[mizinamo]

Well, it's at least regularly irregular :)

All (?) verbs with a stem ending in -s -sz -z -dz add -ol/-el instead of -sz: http://www.hungarianreference.com/Verbs/Verbs-Indefinite-Conjugation.aspx#s