ABSTRACT
Word order in Hungarian is quite different from English in a number of ways. In English, it is the word order of sentences that tells us what the subject and object are. For example in the sentence, ‘The dog chased the postman’, we know the subject is ‘the dog’. In ‘The postman chased the dog’ we know the subject is ‘the postman’. Though both sentences contain the same words, because of the difference in word order, the meanings of the two are entirely different – particularly from the postman’s point of view!
