Wednesday, 11 June 2008

A numbers exercise

Following on from the last post about learning a cheatsheet of words to help with pronunciation, I noticed something when reading through the cardinal numbers. Many of the vowel sounds (at least what appear to be the most common) and a couple of the most useful compound sounds appear in the numbers 0 to 10. Take a look:













NumberHungarianPronouncedRemember for
0nullanul-lou,a
1egyedjue,gy
2kettöket-turö
3háromhaa-rawmá,o
4négynaydjué
5öturt
6hathot
7héthayt
8nyolcnyawltsny,c
9kilencki-lents
10tízteezí