Happy New Dog’s Year – Adjectives of Personality

Happy New Dog’s Year  – Adjectives of Personality

4 Exercises to practice grammar and vocabulary

Rewise and vocabulary
As we have learned it recently this year is the Dog’s in Chinese zodiac.
That time you memorized the horoscopes and could check your zodiac also.
You don’t remember? Check it again here!

Ready?
Answer the question!

Én a ló évében születtem.
És te?

Level up A1/A2
Personalities expressed with adjectives.

1) Choose your zodiac!
Learn the given sentence!

A patkány erős, ügyes és okos.
A bika csendes, türelmes, nyugodt, de makacs.
A tigris bátor, lelkes és harcias.
A nyúl (vagy macska) becsületes, kényelmes és rendes.
A sárkány erős, óvatos, de energikus.
A kígyó akaratos, okos, de  őszinte.
A ló vidám, szabad és talpraesett.
A kecske kecses, csendes és kedves.
A majom okos, bölcs és ügyes.
A kakas bátor és sikeres, de hiú.
A kutya hűséges, becsületes és megértő.
A disznó kitartó, határozott, de barátságos.

What does it mean?
Search for your adjectives in a dictionary, for example here.

ÉS or DE?
Easy-peasy! These two words sign the connection type between two parts of a sentence or between two elements of an idea.

ÉS means AND. This signs additional relation.
DE means BUT. This is an opposed, contradictory position.

For example:
erős és okos ~ strong and smart
nyugodt, de makacs ~ calm, but stubborn

What if there is no sign between the adjectives?
Well, there is. Look, there is a comma.
That also sings additional information, mostly when ideas are listed, enumerated in a sentence.
That is why Hungarians always use commas every single time they write in English. 🙂

Attention, please!
Between two additional elements connected by the word ÉS we don’t use a comma.
However in contradictory relations with the word DE, there has to be a comma before DE.

erős és okos ~ strong and smart
nyugodt, de makacs ~ calm, but stubborn
csendes, türelmes, nyugodt ~ silent, patient, calm

Do you see? 🙂
Okay, then!

Does it seem difficult?
Well, it isn’t. Come, I’ll show you! 🙂

2)Take a paper, please!
Copy your sentence at least 3 times!
Choose a sentence that contains ÉS. Write it down 3 times! Remember, don’t use a comma!
Choose a sentence that contains DE. Write it down 3 times! Remember TO USE the comma!

Ready?
Rewise and check your sentences!

3)Stay at your paper.
Draw 2 columns. The first one is for positive, the second one is for negative personal adjectives.

Choose at least 3 negative and 3 positive words!
Copy them to your table!

For example:

4)Pay attention to the accents!

erŐs
Ügyes
bÁtor
hiÚ
etc.

Rewise and check!

Naaah, how is it going?
Let me know!