Hungarian grammar

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Hungarian grammar is the grammar of Hungarian, a Ugric language that is spoken mainly in Hungary and in parts of its seven neighboring countries. Hungarian is a highly agglutinative language which uses various affixes, mainly suffixes, to change the meaning of words and their grammatical function. These affixes are mostly attached according to vowel harmony. Verbs are conjugated according to definiteness, tense, mood, person and number. Nouns can be declined with 18 case suffixes, most of which correspond to English prepositions. Hungarian is a pro-drop language and the subject does not have to be explicitly stated. Hungarian is a topic-prominent language and so its word order depends on the topic-comment structure of the sentence (that is, what aspect is assumed to be known and what is emphasized).

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