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Hungarian speakers: "I love..."?
Need help from Hungarian speakers. How do you say "I love your...", as in "I love your cooking" or "I love your hair"? I can't find it in any online phrase book, just "I love you."
Please provide pronunciation.
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- JuliLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
It depends on the specifics.
"I love your hair" is "Tetszik a hajad" (more literally "your hair pleases me / looks good to me"). This is the most appropriate for any concrete item, like clothing or artwork or belongings. If it's more than one thing, the verb changes: "I like your paintings" is "tetszenek a festményeid". Note that the bit that English expresses with the word "your" is a suffix on the noun in Hungarian, and the form of the suffix depends on the noun: láb-ad, kép-ed, bőr-öd, arc-od.
"I love your cooking" is "ízlik a főztöd" ("your cooking tastes good to me").
I can't offhand think of a situation where it sounds really idiomatic, but there's also "szeretem a(z) ...", using a form of the "love/like" verb.
Rough pronunciations: /TET-seek/ (first syllable like 'met' or 'set'), /EEZ-leek/, /SE-re-tem/ (all vowels like 'met' or 'sell'), and "a" is like in 'tall' or 'awe'.
