Növény

Növény

Meaning:

plant

Pronunciation:

Memory hook:

There are NO plants on VENUs.

Example sentences:

A dzsungel a növények és állatok csodálatos világa.

The jungle is the wonderful world of plants and animals.

[The jungle the plants and animals wonderful world-of.]

Egyetlen növényt sem tudok életben tartani a lakásomban.

I cannot keep one single plant alive in my flat.

[One-single plant(acc.) neither can-I life-in keep the flat-my-in.]

Related terms:

nő – to grow —> “növény” literally translates to “something that has grown”. Plus note, that “nő” also means “woman”—> two words with one stone.

állat – animal

gomba – fungus

dzsungel – jungle

erdő – forest

virág- flower

fa – tree

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