Personal infinitives and reasons

A specified person with kell can use a personal infinitive. With stay: maradnom, maradnod, maradnia, maradnunk, maradnotok, maradniuk. Polite önnek maradnia kell uses third person. Compare generic maradni kell.

For a reason use mert: maradok, mert jó itt. Ezért gives a result: esik, ezért otthon maradok. A simple condition uses ha with present. Frequent polite requests vegye fel, tartsa meg are explained verb-prefix/object chunks.

• Nekem maradnom kell.I have to stay.

• Neked maradnod kell.You have to stay.

• Neki maradnia kell.He/she has to stay.

• Nekünk maradnunk kell.We have to stay.

• Önnek maradnia kell.You have to stay, politely.

• Maradok, mert jó itt.I stay because it is good here.

Personal infinitives also include maradnotok for you familiar plural and maradniuk for they or you polite plural. They can stand before or after kell, according to emphasis. Aludnia kell means he/she has to sleep, or you polite have to sleep; vigyáznia kell rá means has to look after him/her/it. The request chunks vegye fel and tartsa meg mean put it on and keep it. Before the general past lesson, mondtam, sütött, aludt, fáztál mean I said, shone, slept, you felt cold. Story lenne means would be, an imagined puppy; no full conditional paradigm is required.