How many words are there in Hungarian?

Add to that quasi-standard words, specialist dictionaries, and dialect words, living Hungarian words would be 1 000 000 to 1 200 000 words.

Which European language has the largest vocabulary?

English
English is one of the most populous languages in terms of dictionary entries. The Oxford English contains over 200,000 words, with 171,476 active words and 47,156 inactive words. According to the dictionary Larousse, French has a vocabulary of 59,000 words. The dictionary Littré has 132,000 active words.

What is the longest Hungarian word?

Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért
Hungarian. Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért, with 44 letters is one example of a long word in the Hungarian language and means something like “for your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated”. It is already morphed, since Hungarian is an agglutinative language.

Does German have more words than English?

3. The German vocabulary. The German language consists of about 5.3 million words – with a rising trend. This means, the German language contains eight times as many words as the English language.In the everyday conversation, we use much less words: only 12.000 – 16.000 words including about 3.500 foreign words.

How many words are there in the Hungarian language?

Vocabulary. The new desk lexicon of the Hungarian language contains 75,000 words and the Comprehensive Dictionary of Hungarian Language (to be published in 18 volumes in the next twenty years) will contain 110,000 words. The default Hungarian lexicon is usually estimated to comprise 60,000 to 100,000 words.

Is Hungarian a difficult language to learn?

We take a look at 13 facts about Hungarian you may not have known before. Anyone learning Hungarian will be keen to tell you that it’s one of the most challenging languages to take up.

How has the Hungarian language changed over time?

Over the years, since its creation as a language, Hungarian has evolved and changed just like any other dialect. However, staying true to its ancient roots, Hungarian contains a whopping 68\% of its etymons, or original words. Compare this with the 4\% retained by the English language, or the 5\% kept by Hebrew, and the scale is even more impressive.

What words did the Hungarians borrow from other languages?

Hungarian borrowed many words from neighbouring Slavic languages: e.g. tégla ‘brick’; mák ‘poppy seed’; karácsony ‘Christmas’ ). These languages in turn borrowed words from Hungarian: e.g. Serbo-Croatian ašov from Hungarian ásó ‘spade’.