I think Vezetö on the door must translate to “boss”. The translator is calling it “conductor”, but the base word seems to mean “lead”

As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520

**Also, check out some Jucika fan art! https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    Vezető is a common word that is used to construct compound words where it means manager.

    Irodavezető means office manager, osztályvezető means department head, but mozdonyvezető means train engineer where mozdony is the train engine.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Oh! That could’ve been my mistake. I typed ö with the dots instead of ő with the little lines. Thanks

      I’m reading now that the ő suffix makes it refer to a person?

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        It’s a bit like -er. It can be used for objects, as well. Based on the word, it can end with ó or ő.
        Vezet (drive, lead, etc) -> vezető (driver, leader).
        Hűt (cool [verb]) -> hűtő (cooler, fridge).
        Üt (hit) -> ütő ([sports] bat, [sports] paddle).
        Olvas (read) -> olvasó (reader).
        Úsz(ik) (swim) -> úszó (swimmer, fishing float).

        All these might also mean -ing (as in, the continuous participle, NOT the noun), depending on the context.

  • Lena@gregtech.eu
    35·
    11 hours ago

    With the amount of Jucika titles you’ve translated, you’re going to be fluent in Hungarian in no time!

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      37·
      10 hours ago

      Ha, seriously! I was proud of myself for guessing that Könyve probably meant book, because I remembered translating Könyv from this one a few weeks back:

      • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        5 hours ago

        Lol thats fun, tho for hungarian its very important to look out for the different endings as well. Könyv is the base form while könyve(könyv+e) means it is possesed by someone, in this case Jucika. Jucika is also not a base form, it comes from juci+ka which is the dimunitive of juci which is already the dimunitive of judit(judith in english). So yeah a double dimunitive(dimunitive is like ito in spanish), but that isnt where it stops. A phrase you can construct(and which ive actually seen in use tho as a great exageration) is “kisútcácska” which is a constucted of kis+út+ca+cska where út means road, ca and cska are dimunitives and kis means smaller so its basically a triple dimunitive. Also as for the last word in the title, izgalmas is a doozy. It means exciting and it originated from izz(ik) which means to glow or radiate. That got turned into izgat(iz(z)+gat) which means “to make glow” literally, to excite normally. Then that got turned into izgalom(izga(t)l+alom) which means excitement(literally it would mean like “something involving making something glow”). Then finally izgalmas is formed as izgal(o)m+as which means exciting(if were gonna do the literal thing: “something that has the quality of something that involves making something glow” i guess lol). I like having hungarian as a native language, it doesnt help you understand any other language because its very isolated but its fun to play arround with words like this. There are some insane words and sentences you can form: “A legeslegharcrakészebbeknek ellehetetlenítették a felfegyverkezést” meaning “They have made it impossible for those most ready(readiest) for combat to arm themselves”. Im not writing down how that works lol…

        • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          This is so interesting and also so overwhelming, lol. Thank you. I remember you (I think) mentioning to look out for the endings of words before.

          I’ve heard of some other languages doing something similar. For example, I’ve been trying to learn a bit of Danish recently, and they’ll sometimes tack on an -et to the end of a word to say “the”. I know German is supposed to be a language where you can frequently combine a bunch of words, but I’m not exactly sure how it works. Languages are fun.

  • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
    14·
    10 hours ago

    The only thing worse than a boss breathing down your neck is a hypocritical boss breathing down your neck.