How to Say “Potato” in Hungarian
The English word “potato” is translated into Hungarian as krumpli or burgonya. Both words refer to the starchy plant tuber eaten as a vegetable.
About Hungarian
Hungarian, magyar in the language itself, is the official language of Hungary and is spoken as a first language by about 12.6 million people, including large communities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine. It is a Uralic language, distantly related to Finnish and Estonian and unrelated to the languages around it.
Stress always falls on the first syllable. An accent over a vowel makes it long, and some letter pairs stand for one sound: s is like the sh in "shoe", sz like the s in "see", cs like the ch in "church", zs like the s in "pleasure" and gy close to the d in "dew". Hungarians use te with friends and family, and with strangers they use a polite form, often maga or ön with the verb in the third person.
| Family | Uralic, Ugric |
|---|---|
| Native speakers | about 12.6 million (2019) |
| Official in | Hungary |
| Script | Latin alphabet, 44 letters |
| Codes | hu (ISO 639-1), hun (ISO 639-3) |
Speaker number: Ethnologue (2019), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
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