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A HUNGARIAN GRAMMAR.

All other moods and tenses are conjugated regularly.

The intransitive active verbs are conjugated like the indefinite form of the transitives.


II. Medial Verbs (with -ik).

Medial verbs, as has been said already, are of three kinds: deponent, passive, and neuter. The two last mentioned have only an indefinite form; the deponents, however, if they are of such a meaning that they may be used in a transitive sense, can be declined also in the definite form of the active verb.

Such verbs are, for instance: lakni, to dwell (neuter sense); and lakni, to inhabit (transitive sense, because there must be an object which is inhabited). In the indefinite form these are always conjugated like neuter (medial) verbs, and in the definite like the active verb; as—

Indefinite. Definite.
lakom, I dwell lakom, I inhabit a certain object;
say, or instance,
this house.
lakol, thou dwellest lakod, thou inhabitest
lakik, he dwells lakja, he inhabits
lakunk, we dwell lakjuk, we inhabit
laktok, you dwell lakjátok, you inhabit
laknak, they dwell lakják, they inhabit

The conjugation of the neuter (medial) verbs differs only in the singular from that of the active verbs ; the plural being throughout the same.

The same euphonic rules are to be observed here as with the active verbs.