És úgy lőn

[pthalogreen]

1. Kezdetben teremté imc jó válaszokat a kategoriámban.
3. És mondám én: Legyen I1 jogok imc-nek: és lőn I1 jogok.
4. Mert látám, hogy jó az imc.

1. In the beginning imc created good answers in my category.
3. And I said, Let there be I1 privs for imc: and there was I1 privs.
4. Because I saw imc, that he was good

Comments

[ladydiana]

Squee!

[bridgetester]

Congrats imc!

(Huh. There's a lot more t's in the modern Hungarian version.)

[pthalogreen]

yep, that's because Hungarian used to have 4 past tenses and now it only has one, which is -t, or -[vowel]t, or -[vowel]tt.

teremté was "he created [a long time ago]" now you just say termetett "he created"

same with mondám. "I said a long time ago" now you just say "mondtam" (I said)

lőn is also archaic, something like a future in the psat. "lett" = became

látám is also the same "I saw a long time ago" and "láttam" is "I saw"

in the bible "a föld kietlen és puszta vala" (the earth was without form and void)

vala is another past tense, stating that something was in some sort of state in the past. now you just say "volt" (was)

and there was "ahogy mondottam" (as I have said) and now you say "ahogy már mondtam" (as already I said)

[bridgetester]

Doesn't the lack of tenses get confusing? Although it's better than the various conjugations and declensions in Latin that share the same form...

[pthalogreen]

no, it doesn't really. you can tell from context what people mean. english is confusing because it has too many tenses.

[imc]

Thank you, I am most honoured!

Funny what one comes across when reading random things on LiveJournal.

(If any requests come in in mediaeval Hungarian I'll be sure to leave them for you to handle.)

[stagemanager]

I'm just curious what happened to #2 on the list? (I've read this post four times now, just to make sure I'm not asking a ridiculous or superfluous question.)

[pthalogreen]

I didn't feel Genesis 1:2 relevant to the post, though I possibly should've included it for completeness. I felt weird because for the purpose of the post it would probably come off as comparing myself to God, which I wouldn't really be comfortable with. Also, I couldn't figure out how to spr0tify it.

In English (KJV) "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

In Hungarian (Károly): A föld pedig kietlen és puszta vala, és setétség vala a mélység színén, és az Isten Lelke lebeg vala a vizek felett.

[stagemanager]

Boy, do I feel stupid. (Being a former severely lapsed Christian, I really should've picked up on that...)