What does “tételt húz” mean in Hungarian?
Emlékek a szóbeli érettségiről
B1 Hungarian listening practice · Standard Hungarian · Picked for people who know some
At a Hungarian oral exam, especially the érettségi (the secondary-school leaving exam), you don’t choose your topic — you draw it. Tételt húz, literally “to pull a topic”, is the nerve-wracking moment of picking a numbered card that decides which prepared subject you must speak on. Tétel here means an exam “topic” or “item”, and húz is the everyday verb “to pull/draw”, the same one used for drawing a card or a lottery number.
Related: szóbeli (oral exam), tételsor (the full list of topics), érettségi (school-leaving exam / matura). Húz is highly reusable — húzd meg (“pull it”), sorsot húz (“to draw lots”). In the clip the speaker relives the panic of the szóbeli érettségi: having studied every topic, then drawing the one card whose tétel they hadn’t read a single letter of.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.