• Dicska
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    Nope: ‘the tea is bisexual’ -> ‘a tea biszexuális’.

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      Do adjectives change their form in the same way verbs do? So could you gloss “a tea biszexuális” as “the tea bisexuals”, with a different form for plural tea, for if you or I are being described as bisexual"?

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        Sounds like someone speaks the language here : ). No and no. Plural of tea: teák. The ‘is’ is still not needed, but the plural gets added to the adjective, too: a teák biszexuálisak.

        For I, you (singular), we and you (plural) we actually use the appropriate form of is/be (but note that pronouns are not needed, unless you want to emphasise them). ‘Be’ gets inclined accordingly to the person/pronoun, therefore:
        I am bisexual -> biszexuális vagyok

        You (s) are bisexual -> biszexuális vagy

        We are bisexual -> biszexuálisak vagyunk

        You (p) are bisexual -> biszexuálisak vagytok

        I can’t wait for the future recommended words by my keyboard app now.

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          Oh interesting, so you can omit it only in the third person (or maybe some other situations - but not all) I’ve not heard of that exact set up before :)

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            I wonder how it works in Finnish and Estonian - the two distant relatives to Hungarian. I can’t think of anything else within the language family.

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              I believe in Finnish you use “is” with adjectives, although I can’t remember any Finnish adjectives right now.

              Had to look it up, yeah found an example: “lukeminen on hauskaa” = “reading is fun”

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                    I agree that linguistics are fascinating. Even if I don’t understand the rest of the language this was such a fun comment chain to read! This is why I love the fediverse, I got enlightened in the comments of a meme