Simplified Grammar of the Hungarian Language/Gender
GENDER.
The Hungarian has no grammatical gender. Names applying to male persons are masculine, and those of females feminine.
To names or titles of male persons the ending -né is affixed to denote the wife of that person: as, Deákné, the wife of Deák; szinészné, the wife of an actor. But if she herself were an actress it would be szinész ( = actor or actress). In such cases often the word nő ( = woman) is joined to it, to denote that the person spoken of is a woman; e.g., szinésznő, an actress.
The gender of animals is expressed by putting him ( = male), or nőstény = (female), before the respective name; as—
| him farkas, | a he-wolf. |
| nőstény farkas, | a she-wolf. |
But these apply of course, only to animals.