Category:Hungarian auxiliary verbs

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Hungarian verbs that provide additional conjugations for other verbs.

  Hungarian auxiliary verbs and related words:

• (personal) akar (“want”), bír (“able to”, colloquial), fog (“going to”), mer (“dare”), szokik (here formally in the past: szokott (“usually do”)), tud (“can, able to”)
• (impersonal) kell (“must, have to, be needed”), sikerül (“succeed, manage to”), szabad (“allowed”), tetszik (“appeal, be liked”) (and their forms, e.g. tessék, tessenek, kellett etc.)
• adjectives and nouns used (partly) in place of English auxiliary verbs:
  • (personal) kénytelen (“compelled to”), képes (“able”), képtelen (“unable”), köteles (“obliged, required to”),
  • (impersonal) muszáj (“have got to”), szükséges (“necessary”), tilos (“forbidden, prohibited”)
• derivative suffix: -hat/-het (“may, can”)

If the person is supplied with impersonal constructions, it is expressed with the dative (-nak/-nek) and/or by adding personal suffixes to the infinitive of the main verb.