"Jövőre mit csináltok?"

Translation: What are you doing next year?

[Bilegdembe]

Tavaly means last year. Jövőre means next year. Am i right? Interesting that in Hungarian language, there are specific words for those

[vvsey]

Yes, correct. Yes, these are specific words (maybe idiomatic) but they evolved from not so specific ones. "Tavaly" comes from "távol" (at a distance), if I remember correctly. And "jövő" itself still means "coming" and "future". So, the full phrase would be "a jövő évben" - in the coming year. But with the "-re" suffix it clearly means "next year". Unless there is some other context that it refers back to:

• "Which train do you get on?" - "Melyik vonatra szállsz?"
• "The coming one"/"The one that is coming" - "A jövőre".

And you can also say "a tavalyi évben", if you so desire.

[Krisbaudi]

Very interesting and nice, that jövöre can not only be used for next year. I like that word.

[vvsey]

But it does need some context, for sure. Otherwise, in itself, it is next year.

[SusanRankin1]

Koszonom

[bolcshulye2]

"Jövőre" can also just mean "in the future" (which is how I've always used it) and which I think might also fit the sentence here ("what are you doing in the future?"). I didn't know it could be used to mean specifically "next year" for which I would have used "a jövő évben" or "a következő évben".

[ButFirstCoffee]

I agree. I always thought that it meant "in the future," ex. múlt jelen jövő. I didn't know that it could be used for next year. It would be nice to hear from someone who has more experience than I do how you can tell when which is meant

[PSostorics]

I thought the tok suffix meant it was in the past. So does it actually mean or would a literal translation be "What were you doing next year"?

[RyagonIV]

-tok/-tek/-tök is the suffix for 2nd person plural present (indefinite indicative, to make it complete), so it's "What y'all gonna do?"
-tak/-tek would be a suffix for the past tense: Mit csináltak? - What did they do?