What does “hajnal” mean in Hungarian?
Szülinapi utazásunk Spanyolországba és a repülős kaland
B1 Hungarian listening practice · Hungarian · Picked for people who know some
A birthday trip to Spain begins, as cheap flights do, painfully early: «Hajnalban keltünk» (“we got up at dawn”). Hajnal means “dawn, daybreak,” and hajnalban is “at the crack of dawn.”
It’s a warm, much-loved Hungarian word, a common girl’s name (Hajnalka) and a fixture of folk songs and poetry about the first light. The trip itself becomes a comedy of errors: the plane has to turn back mid-taxi because the autopilot fails. But hajnal is the word you’ll need every time a Hungarian describes an ungodly early start.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.
- ▸Hungarian travel vlogs braving dawn flights.
- ▸As the girl’s name Hajnal / Hajnalka.
- ▸In Hungarian folk songs and poems about daybreak.
- ▸Everyday Hungarian for an early start: hajnalban.