teach · Hungarian (tanít) — Event-Structure Dictionary

Arguments

Teacher, Learner, Content · two case pairings of one lemma · Hungarian cloth · working claim, revisable

Voice[Teacher] + low Appl(Learner) + complement of the root (Content)

tanít · frame (a) · Learner_ACC (-t) · Content_SUBL (-ra/-re) or an infinitive

tanít · frame (b) · Content_ACC (-t) · Learner_DAT (-nak/-nek)

oktat · Learner_ACC · Content_SUBL · ÉrtSz hivatalos

megtanít · the meg- preverb form · gloss only · one printed sublative

tanul · Learner_NOM · Content_ACC or an infinitive · person-source -tól/-től

A teaching, on tanít, has a Teacher, a Learner, and a Content. They are not three equal sisters of one flat verb. Voice adds the Teacher. Low Appl introduces the Learner. The root’s complement is the Content. The same lemma prints two ways of casing those two complements. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz, sense 1) writes frame (a) as Vkit tanít (vmire), and the infinitives írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni tanít vkit. Sense 1a writes frame (b) and equates the two: Vmit tanít (vkinek): vmire tanít (vkit). The filled lines of 1a are Orosz nyelvet, történelmet tanít and Irodalmat tanít az első osztály növendékeinek.

What is different from the English gloss. English teach X to Y and teach Y X are two bare objects, or a bare object and to. Neither gloss chooses a Hungarian case. English Wiktionary’s usage note calls frame (b) the most common structure: the field of teaching in the accusative, the recipients in the dative -nak/-nek. The alternative it prints is frame (a): the field in -ra/-re when the recipients are accusative. Both of its glosses of Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek are the English pair, “I teach the children English” and “I teach English to the children.” One gloss of Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket is again “I teach the children English.” The other is “I teach the children about English.” ÉrtSz equates the frames. Wiktionary ranks (b) as most common and offers “about” for the sublative. The two citations do not lock a meaning split between the cases.

Where the siblings diverge. Frame (b), accusative Content and dative Learner, is the cloth of Spanish enseñar, of German beibringen, and of Russian преподавать. Frame (a) keeps an accusative Learner, as the active norm of lehren does, and as учить / научить does. The Content of frame (a) is sublative. That is a second accusative on lehren, and a dative on учить. Hungarian prints both pairings on one lemma. German and Russian print them on different lemmas, and neither of those lemmas prints the sublative.

The infinitive, and the Learner alone. ÉrtSz puts the infinitives in the same government as the accusative person: írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni tanít vkit. József Attila, as ÉrtSz prints the line, has the accusative of the people and no Content: Én egész népemet fogom … taní- / tani! Szabó Lőrinc’s line has neither: Ő tanított harmadfél éven át.

oktat. ÉrtSz sense 1 is transitive and marked hivatalos: Vkit vmire oktat: tanítja vmire. Latinra, mennyiségtanra oktatja a tanulókat. The Learner is accusative. The subject is sublative. English Wiktionary glosses the verb “to educate, to instruct, to teach” and lists tanít among the synonyms. That page prints no case frame. Czuczor and Fogarasi state the limit on the accusative: Csak személyt lehet oktatni; s nem mondjuk, hogy valamely tudományt, mesterséget oktat, hanem tudományra, mesterségre oktat valakit, (vagy tudományt, mesterséget tanít). The accusative Content that tanít prints in frame (b) is the frame this sentence withholds from oktat. ÉrtSz sense 2 is the rebuke, Te csak ne oktass engem!, and it is off the school frame.

megtanít. ÉrtSz lists it in the preverb row, with no gloss of its own: Igekötős igék: betanít; eltanít; félretanít; kitanít; letanít; megtanít; összetanít; rátanít; végigtanít. Hungarian Wiktionary glosses megtanít as Ismeretet magyarázva átad and gives the English word “teach.” The Jókai line on that page is a bor minden nyelvre megtanít (1851): the Content is sublative nyelvre, and the clause has no accusative Learner. A full case frame for the preverb form is unprinted in the articles opened. The row above is the name of the form and the gloss.

tanul. The Learner is the nominative subject. ÉrtSz sense 1 is Tanul vmit and tanul vkitől vmit, with the infinitives írni, olvasni among the companions of vmit. The Content is accusative, or an infinitive. The person one learns from is ablative -tól/-től. Petőfi, as ÉrtSz prints sense 1c: Haza és szabadság, ez a két szó, melyet Először tanuljon dajkától a gyermek. dajkától is that ablative. English Wiktionary sense 1 is “to study, to learn,” and the person-source it names is -tól/-től. It lists tanít as a coordinate term. The ablative is the source. It is not the dative Learner of frame (b), and it is not the accusative Learner of frame (a).

Places · who wears which marking

ÉrtSz sense 1a prints the accusative Content and the dative Learner in one clause, Irodalmat tanít az első osztály növendékeinek. English Wiktionary prints each pairing as its own clause. No article opened here stacks a sublative Content, an accusative Learner, and a dative Learner in one clause. The two Wiktionary clauses are the two frames, not one frame with three complements.

Printed frame (a) · accusative Learner · sublative Content

✓ Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket. English Wiktionary · usage note · Angolra sublative · a gyerekeket accusative · tanítom

✓ írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni tanít vkit ÉrtSz · tanít sense 1 · infinitive beside vkit

I teach the children English · I teach the children about English · teach someone to write, to read, to skate, to swim

Printed frame (b) · accusative Content · dative Learner

✓ Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek. English Wiktionary · usage note · most common structure · Angolt accusative · a gyerekeknek dative · tanítok

✓ Irodalmat tanít az első osztály növendékeinek. ÉrtSz · sense 1a · Vmit tanít (vkinek): vmire tanít (vkit)

I teach the children English · I teach English to the children · teaches literature to the first-year pupils

Printed oktat · accusative Learner · sublative subject

✓ Latinra, mennyiségtanra oktatja a tanulókat. ÉrtSz · oktat sense 1 · tárgyas · hivatalos · tanítja vmire

instructs the pupils in Latin, in mathematics

Places of Hungarian tanít and the neighbouring teach verbs: introducer, marking, case status, English, Spanish, German, and Russian marking
Place	Introduced by (working)	Hungarian marking	Case status	English and the sibling marking
Teacher · tanít	Spec,Voice	nominative subject	ÉrtSz tanít · the József Attila line and the literature line have a teacher as subject	subject of teach · subject of enseñar · subject of lehren, beibringen, and unterrichten · subject of teaching учить and of преподавать
Learner · frame (a)	low Appl	accusative · -t · vkit · a gyerekeket · népemet	ÉrtSz Vkit tanít (vmire) · Wiktionary’s alternative when the field is sublative	bare object of teach someone something · accusative of lehren in the active norm · accusative of учить · dative of enseñar and of beibringen
Content · frame (a)	complement of the root	sublative · -ra/-re · vmire · Angolra · or an infinitive	ÉrtSz pairs the infinitive with vkit · Wiktionary’s second gloss of this line is “about English”	bare object of something · accusative of lehren and of beibringen · dative of учить · the sublative is unprinted on those siblings
Content · frame (b)	complement of the root	accusative · Angolt · Irodalmat · Orosz nyelvet, történelmet	ÉrtSz sense 1a · Wiktionary calls this the most common structure	accusative Content of enseñar, of beibringen, and of преподавать
Learner · frame (b)	low Appl	dative · -nak/-nek · vkinek · a gyerekeknek · növendékeinek	ÉrtSz equates this dative with the accusative Learner of vmire tanít (vkit)	dative Learner of enseñar, of beibringen, and of преподавать
oktat · Learner	low Appl	accusative · a tanulókat · vkit	ÉrtSz sense 1 · hivatalos · Czuczor: a person can be the object	accusative Learner of frame (a) of tanít
oktat · Content	complement of the root	sublative · Latinra, mennyiségtanra · tudományra, mesterségre	Czuczor withholds the accusative of the subject from this verb and assigns that accusative to tanít	sublative Content of frame (a) · the accusative Content of frame (b) stays on tanít
megtanít	the meg- preverb on the same stem	Jókai minden nyelvre · sublative · no Learner in that clause	hu.wiktionary gloss Ismeretet magyarázva átad · ÉrtSz lists the form and prints no government for it	the preverbed form of tanít · a second case frame is unprinted
tanul · Learner	Spec,Voice of the learner-side verb	nominative subject · Petőfi a gyermek	the converse of tanít · English Wiktionary lists tanít as a coordinate term	subject of aprender · subject of учиться · subject of the study reading of учить
tanul · Content	complement of the root	accusative vmit · or an infinitive · Petőfi melyet	ÉrtSz Tanul vmit	accusative of the study reading of учить · dative Content of учиться
Person-source of tanul	ablative -tól/-től	ÉrtSz vkitől · Petőfi dajkától · English Wiktionary -tól/-től	the person one learns from · English Wiktionary sense 3 names adessive -nál/-nél and prints no clause for it	Spanish de · Russian у+genitive of учиться · the dative Learner of frame (b) is a different marking

Marking map. One case can belong to either complement. Read the other complement, then the marker.

Nominative of the Teacher. The subject of tanít in the teaching senses transmits the skill or the subject. Móra, as ÉrtSz prints it: Kunz tanár úr az ábrázoló geometriát tanította. The accusative is the Content. The clause fills no Learner. The intransitive school lines fill neither complement: ÉrtSz sense 1b Általános iskolában … tanít, and Kosztolányi Abba az iskolába jártam, ahol ő tanított. The place suffix -ban/-ba is the school. It is not the Learner and not the Content.
Accusative of the Learner, frame (a). ÉrtSz vkit, Wiktionary a gyerekeket, József Attila népemet, and on oktat a tanulókat. The verb form beside the definite accusative a gyerekeket is tanítom. The verb form beside the indefinite accusative Angolt in frame (b) is tanítok. Those are the two forms the usage note prints. A paradigm beyond those two lines is not opened here.
Sublative of the Content, frame (a). -ra/-re. Wiktionary Angolra. ÉrtSz writes the slot as vmire and does not fill a school-subject noun in that slot in the lines quoted above. The infinitive sits in the same sense: írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni. Sense 2 of ÉrtSz is conduct, still accusative person and sublative: Jóra, rosszra tanít vkit, and Arany Ne tanítson engem senki becsűletre! becsűletre is sublative. It is the conduct sense, kept off the school-subject frame.
Accusative of the Content, frame (b). Wiktionary Angolt. ÉrtSz Orosz nyelvet, történelmet, Irodalmat, and Móra’s az ábrázoló geometriát. Czuczor assigns this accusative of a subject of study to tanít and withholds it from oktat.
Dative of the Learner, frame (b). -nak/-nek. Wiktionary a gyerekeknek. ÉrtSz az első osztály növendékeinek. Sense 1a’s equation is vkinek beside vkit. A dative of the Content, the government of Russian учить, is unprinted on tanít.
oktat. One printed school frame: accusative Learner, sublative Content, label hivatalos. Czuczor’s sentence is the dictionary’s own withholding of tudományt oktat. ÉrtSz does not print a vmit vkinek frame for oktat. Sense 2, Te csak ne oktass engem!, is the rebuke.
megtanít. The preverb list in ÉrtSz names the form and stops. Hungarian Wiktionary supplies the gloss Ismeretet magyarázva átad and the Jókai sublative nyelvre. English Wiktionary has no separate article for the form. No accusative Learner and no dative Learner are printed with megtanít in the articles opened.
tanul. Nominative Learner, accusative or infinitive Content, ablative person-source. Petőfi fills a gyermek, the relative accusative melyet, and dajkától in one sentence. English Wiktionary sense 3 names adessive -nál/-nél for attending a course with a teacher and prints no clause. That adessive stays unfilled.
Senses kept off the two teaching frames. ÉrtSz sense 4 is a that-clause, Azt tanítja a történelem, hogy… The demonstrative azt is accusative. The hogy-clause is the content of what history teaches. There is no Learner in the formula. It sits beside the dass-clause of lehren, off the three-place teaching frame. Sense 1b is the intransitive professional reading. Sense 2 is conduct, sublative, and it stays in its own sense.

EN ⇄ HU valency strip

Each row lines up one English slot with a Hungarian slot, and names the Spanish, German, or Russian slot where the case differs. The alignment type says what happens to the slot: = (same object status), or shift (a bare English object ↔ a Hungarian case). Printed dictionary lines come first. A Hungarian sentence with no printed source is constructed. The constructed lines show the working alignment. They are not frequency, and they are not a bilingual corpus.

English–Hungarian valency alignment for teach / tanít, one row per argument
Slot	EN form	HU form	Align	EN example	HU example
Teacher	SUBJ of teach	nominative subject of tanít	=	the teacher teaches geometry gloss of Móra	Kunz tanár úr az ábrázoló geometriát tanította ÉrtSz
Learner · frame (a)	bare object of teach someone something	accusative · -t	shift · one Hungarian accusative · enseñar and beibringen use a dative here	teach the children English Wiktionary’s gloss	a gyerekeket English Wiktionary · vkit ÉrtSz
Content · frame (a)	bare something, or “about”	sublative · -ra/-re · or an infinitive	shift · the Content is sublative · учить puts this in the dative · lehren puts this in the accusative	English · about English Wiktionary’s two glosses	Angolra English Wiktionary · úszni ÉrtSz
Content · frame (b)	bare something	accusative · -t	shift on the English bare object · this accusative matches enseñar, beibringen, and преподавать	teach English to the children Wiktionary’s gloss	Angolt English Wiktionary · Irodalmat ÉrtSz
Learner · frame (b)	bare object, or to	dative · -nak/-nek	shift · this dative matches enseñar, beibringen, and преподавать	to the children · to the pupils glosses	a gyerekeknek English Wiktionary · növendékeinek ÉrtSz
oktat	instruct / educate	accusative Learner · sublative Content	the frame of (a) · ÉrtSz hivatalos · Czuczor withholds an accusative Content	instruct the pupils in Latin gloss	Latinra … a tanulókat ÉrtSz
tanul	subject of learn	nominative Learner · accusative Content · ablative -tól/-től	the Learner has left the object slot	let the child learn it from the nurse gloss of Petőfi	tanuljon dajkától a gyermek ÉrtSz · Petőfi
Two accusatives	the English double object has no case ending	accusative Learner beside an accusative Content	unprinted on tanít · the active norm of lehren is this pair	—	* Angolt tanítom a gyerekeket. constructed · two accusatives · the printed pairs are Angolra + a gyerekeket, and Angolt + a gyerekeknek
Dative Content	bare something	dative of the subject of study	unprinted · that dative is the Content of учить, and the Learner of frame (b)	—	* Angolnak tanítom a gyerekeket. constructed · dative Content · the printed Content beside an accusative Learner is sublative Angolra

The strip below is a set of small multiples. Each card holds one frame. The subject chip is the Teacher when the clause has one, and the learner-side subject on tanul.

HU · frame (a)

accusative + -ra/-re

I teach the children English.

Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket.

HU · English Wiktionary · accusative Learner · sublative Content · also glossed “about English”

RolesHide roles LearnerContent

Learner a gyerekeket · accusative Content Angolra · sublative

Move the accusative Learner matches lehren and учить · the Content is sublative, not a second accusative and not a dative

HU · frame (b)

accusative + -nak/-nek

I teach English to the children.

Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek.

HU · English Wiktionary · most common structure · accusative Content · dative Learner

RolesHide roles ContentLearner

Content Angolt · accusative Learner a gyerekeknek · dative

Move this pair matches enseñar, beibringen, and преподавать · ÉrtSz equates it with frame (a)

HU · infinitive

vkit + infinitive

teach someone to swim

úszni tanít vkit

HU · ÉrtSz sense 1 · the infinitives are printed as a series · írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni

RolesHide roles LearnerContent

Learner vkit · accusative Content úszni · infinitive

Move the infinitive sits with the accusative Learner · Russian научить prints the infinitive beside an accusative Learner and a dative Content

HU · oktat

accusative + sublative

instruct the pupils in Latin

Latinra, mennyiségtanra oktatja a tanulókat.

HU · ÉrtSz sense 1 · hivatalos · Czuczor withholds tudományt oktat

RolesHide roles LearnerContent

Learner a tanulókat · accusative Content Latinra · sublative

Move frame (a) of tanít · the formal label is ÉrtSz’s hivatalos

HU · megtanít

meg- · sublative

teach every language

a bor minden nyelvre megtanít

HU · hu.wiktionary · Jókai 1851 · sublative nyelvre · no Learner in the clause · gloss Ismeretet magyarázva átad

RolesHide roles Content

Content nyelvre · sublative

Move ÉrtSz names megtanít in the igekötős list and prints no government · the Learner of this form stays unprinted

HU · tanul

nominative + -tól/-től

let the child first learn it from the nurse

melyet Először tanuljon dajkától a gyermek

HU · ÉrtSz · Petőfi · accusative melyet · ablative dajkától · nominative a gyermek

RolesHide roles LearnerContent

Learner a gyermek · nominative Content melyet · accusative · source dajkától

Move the converse of tanít · the source is ablative, as у+genitive is the source of учиться

HU · two accusatives

ACC + ACC ≠ tanít

—

* Angolt tanítom a gyerekeket.

HU constructed · starred · two accusatives · that pair is the active norm of lehren · unprinted on tanít

RolesHide roles LearnerContent

Learner a gyerekeket · accusative Content Angolt · accusative

Move the printed lines keep one accusative · the other complement is sublative or dative

Examples

Argument difference. English teach X to Y and teach Y X are one gloss. Hungarian tanít prints two case pairings, and ÉrtSz sense 1a equates them: Vmit tanít (vkinek): vmire tanít (vkit). Frame (b), accusative Content and dative Learner, is the frame of enseñar, of beibringen, and of преподавать. Frame (a) shares the accusative Learner with lehren and with учить, and the Content is sublative -ra/-re. English Wiktionary calls frame (b) most common and glosses both frames with “teach the children English.” The sublative also receives the gloss “about English.” The English gloss does not choose which Hungarian case the Content wears. oktat prints frame (a) and is marked hivatalos. tanul makes the Learner the subject and marks the person-source with -tól/-től.

Dictionary frames and lines · checked · quoted as printed

Vkit tanít (vmire). írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni tanít vkit. ÉrtSz · tanít sense 1
Vmit tanít (vkinek): vmire tanít (vkit). Orosz nyelvet, történelmet tanít. Irodalmat tanít az első osztály növendékeinek. ÉrtSz · sense 1a
Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek. Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket. English Wiktionary · usage note
Én egész népemet fogom … taní- / tani! ÉrtSz · József Attila · accusative · no Content · Ő tanított harmadfél éven át. ÉrtSz · Szabó Lőrinc
Kunz tanár úr az ábrázoló geometriát tanította. ÉrtSz · Móra · accusative Content · no Learner · Abba az iskolába jártam, ahol ő tanított. ÉrtSz · Kosztolányi
Jóra, rosszra tanít vkit. Ne tanítson engem senki becsűletre! ÉrtSz · sense 2 · Arany · conduct · sublative
Latinra, mennyiségtanra oktatja a tanulókat. ÉrtSz · oktat 1 · hivatalos · tudományra, mesterségre oktat valakit, (vagy tudományt, mesterséget tanít). Czuczor–Fogarasi
a bor minden nyelvre megtanít hu.wiktionary · megtanít · Jókai 1851 · gloss Ismeretet magyarázva átad
Tanul vmit. tanul vkitől vmit. Haza és szabadság, ez a két szó, melyet Először tanuljon dajkától a gyermek. ÉrtSz · tanul sense 1 · Petőfi

The blocks below open one argument at a time. A line with no tag is the working name of the slot. A constructed sentence wears constructed.

Learner · accusative, frame (a)Hide the accusative Learner Learner

✓ Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket. English Wiktionary · both complements in one clause

The Learner is accusative. The Content is sublative. Wiktionary’s verb form in this clause is tanítom.

Learner · dative, frame (b)Hide the dative Learner Learner

✓ Irodalmat tanít az első osztály növendékeinek. ÉrtSz · sense 1a · both complements in one clause

The Content is accusative. The Learner is dative. ÉrtSz equates this clause with vmire tanít (vkit). This is the frame of enseñar.

Two accusatives · unprintedHide the double accusative LearnerContent

* Angolt tanítom a gyerekeket. constructed · Angolt and a gyerekeket are each printed, in different clauses · together they are the double accusative of lehren

* Angolnak tanítom a gyerekeket. constructed · dative Content · the учить government · unprinted on tanít

Voice

No passive sentence that promotes the accusative Learner of tanít, or the accusative Content of frame (b), is printed in the articles opened. Nothing of that shape is constructed. The József Attila line and the Arany line are finite forms with an accusative person still in the object slot: fogom … tanítani, Ne tanítson engem. They are not passives.

The preverb row is a list of forms. ÉrtSz prints megtanít there with no government and no gloss. Hungarian Wiktionary glosses that form Ismeretet magyarázva átad, English “teach,” and prints the Jókai sublative. Those are the citations. They name the preverbed form and give its gloss.

Derivations · working sketches, revisable

Each sketch is a working drawing, not a locked analysis. The drawing gives the Teacher to Voice, the Learner to low Appl, and the Content to the root. On tanul the nominative is the learner-side subject. Open one sketch at a time. Which theta role is the object is the revisable note Causative templates and argument selection. This page does not edit that note.

Voice · the Teacher is the external argument of tanít

Printed · one external argument · teaching sense

[TP [tanít]
  [VoiceP Voice                     ← Teacher = Spec,Voice
    … tanít … ]]

✓ Kunz tanár úr az ábrázoló geometriát tanította. ÉrtSz · Móra

The external argument of this sense is the Teacher. tanul uses the nominative slot for the person who acquires the Content.

Low Appl · the Learner · the root takes the Content

Frame (a) · accusative Learner · sublative Content

[VoiceP Voice
  [ApplP_LOW [a gyerekeket]_ACC Appl   ← Learner · accusative
    [VP √tanít-
       [Content Angolra ]_SUBL ]]]      ← Content · -ra/-re

Frame (b) swaps the cases. ÉrtSz prints the equation of the two.

[VoiceP Voice
  [ApplP_LOW [növendékeinek]_DAT Appl   ← Learner · dative
    [VP √tanít-
       [Content Irodalmat ]_ACC ]]]      ← Content · accusative

✓ Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket. English Wiktionary · frame (a)

✓ Irodalmat tanít az első osztály növendékeinek. ÉrtSz · frame (b)

* Angolt tanítom a gyerekeket. constructed · double accusative

English, Spanish, German, and Russian · one gloss, not one case frame

Working · no English teach page is opened · Spanish is teach-es.html · German is teach-de.html · Russian is teach-ru.html

[VoiceP Voice                                  ← Teacher
  [ApplP_LOW someone Appl                     ← EN bare object
    [VP √TEACH                                · HU frame (a): accusative Learner, sublative Content
       [Content something ]]]]                · HU frame (b): dative Learner, accusative Content
                                              · ES enseñar: dative Learner, accusative Content
                                              · DE beibringen: jdm etw
                                              · DE lehren: two accusatives
                                              · RU учить: accusative Learner, dative Content
                                              · RU преподавать: dative Learner, accusative Content

Frame (b) of tanít matches the dative Learner and the accusative Content of enseñar, of beibringen, and of преподавать. Frame (a) matches the accusative Learner of lehren and of учить, and the Content stays in the sublative.

Layer-by-layer parallel: English teach, Hungarian tanít, Spanish enseñar, German beibringen and lehren, Russian учить and преподавать
Layer	teach (EN) · no page	tanít	enseñar / beibringen / преподавать	lehren / учить
Spec,Voice	Teacher	Teacher	Teacher	Teacher
Learner	bare object, or to	accusative in (a) · dative in (b)	dative	accusative
Content	bare object, or an infinitive	sublative or an infinitive in (a) · accusative in (b)	accusative	accusative on lehren · dative or an infinitive on учить
Learner as subject	learn is another verb	tanul · nominative · source ablative	aprender · учиться	the study reading of учить · German lernen is not this page

Notes

Working paper · October 2026 · Hungarian micro-entry · Beyond Index 2

Teaching in Hungarian is not the English double object, and it is not one case frame. Teacher (Voice, subject), Learner (low Appl), Content (complement of the root). On tanít the Learner is accusative and the Content is sublative -ra/-re, or an infinitive; or the Content is accusative and the Learner is dative -nak/-nek. ÉrtSz equates the two. The second pairing is the frame of Spanish enseñar, German beibringen, and Russian преподавать. oktat prints the accusative Learner and the sublative. tanul makes the Learner the subject.

HU micro-entry live Beyond Index 2 Two case pairings, one lemma ES enseñar live DE lehren live RU учить live JA 教える live FR enseigner live IT insegnare live PL uczyć live NL leren live NO lære live BG уча live ZH 教 live PT ensinar live

Sense × language: teach · Hungarian (tanít). The teaching sense is the page. The conduct sense, the intransitive school lines, and the that-clause stay on the page and off the three-place gloss. oktat, megtanít, and tanul stay notes. No English teach hub. Spanish: teach · enseñar. German: teach · lehren / beibringen / unterrichten. Russian: teach · учить / научить. Japanese: teach · 教える. French: teach · enseigner. Italian: teach · insegnare. Polish: teach · uczyć / nauczyć. Dutch: teach · leren. Norwegian: teach · lære. Bulgarian: teach · уча / науча. Mandarin: teach · 教. Portuguese: teach · ensinar. Geometry neighbors: lend · kölcsönad · rent · bérbe ad. Index 2 does not list Hungarian tanít.

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Corpus and sources

Working paper. Hungarian-only micro-entry. Frames were checked on ÉrtSz (tanít, oktat, tanul), on Czuczor and Fogarasi (oktat), on English Wiktionary (tanít, oktat, tanul), and on Hungarian Wiktionary (tanít, oktat, tanul, megtanít).

Constructed examples. The ÉrtSz governments, the Wiktionary clauses, and the Petőfi, József Attila, Arany, Móra, Kosztolányi, Szabó Lőrinc, and Jókai lines are marked as printed. The starred double accusative and the starred dative Content are marked constructed.

Arity. Index 2 does not list tanít. Surface count can name a teacher, a learner, and a content. The lexicon does not list three co-arguments of one flat V, and it does not list the English double object as the Hungarian frame. Voice adds the Teacher. Low Appl adds the Learner. The root takes the Content. The two case pairings are two ways of marking those two complements. The object inside an infinitive is not a further sister of tanít.

What this page does not do. It does not give tanít a double accusative. It does not give the Content the dative of учить. It does not give oktat an accusative Content. It does not open a page for oktat, megtanít, or tanul. It does not quote Rounds or 501 Hungarian Verbs. The preverb meg- stays the name of the form Hungarian Wiktionary glosses.

Hierarchy

Not a flat grid of three sisters, and not the English double object copied onto one Hungarian verb. Voice adds the Teacher. Low Appl adds the Learner. The root takes the Content.

What Hungarian changes, against teach someone something, is which complement wears the accusative. Frame (a) puts the Learner in the accusative and the Content in the sublative. Frame (b) puts the Content in the accusative and the Learner in the dative. ÉrtSz prints both and equates them. Spanish, German beibringen, and Russian преподавать print only the second pairing. German lehren and Russian учить print an accusative Learner, and their Content is a second accusative or a dative, not the Hungarian sublative.

Geometry · tanít beside enseñar, beibringen, and преподавать

English teach. teach Y X and teach X to Y. No case ending. No English page is opened. Wiktionary uses both English shapes as glosses of frame (b), and uses “the children English” and “about English” as glosses of frame (a).
tanít, frame (a). Accusative Learner, sublative Content, or an infinitive beside the accusative Learner.
tanít, frame (b). Accusative Content, dative Learner. Wiktionary calls this the most common structure. ÉrtSz sense 1a equates it with frame (a).
oktat. Accusative Learner, sublative Content. ÉrtSz: hivatalos. Czuczor withholds an accusative of the subject of study.
megtanít. The meg- form in the ÉrtSz preverb list. Hungarian Wiktionary: Ismeretet magyarázva átad, and Jókai’s sublative nyelvre.
tanul. Nominative Learner. Accusative Content, or an infinitive. Person-source ablative -tól/-től.
enseñar, beibringen, преподавать. Dative Learner, accusative Content. The match for frame (b).
lehren and учить. Accusative Learner. lehren’s Content in the active norm is a second accusative. учить’s Content is dative, or an infinitive. Frame (a) shares the accusative Learner and keeps the Content in the sublative.

Open items

A school-subject noun in the sublative, in one ÉrtSz clause with vkit. The formula is Vkit tanít (vmire). The filled sublative of a school subject in the articles opened is Wiktionary’s Angolra, and ÉrtSz’s Latinra, mennyiségtanra on oktat. Sense 2 fills jóra, rosszra and becsűletre, which are the conduct sense.
A full case frame of megtanít. Unprinted beyond Jókai’s sublative. The Learner stays unfilled. Not constructed.
Adessive -nál/-nél of tanul. Named in English Wiktionary sense 3. No clause was printed in the article opened. Not constructed.
Passive of the accusative Learner. Unprinted. Not constructed.
Rounds, and 501 Hungarian Verbs. Not opened. No sentence from either book is quoted.
A locked meaning split between the two frames. Unprinted. ÉrtSz equates them. Wiktionary ranks (b) as most common and adds “about English” as a second gloss of the sublative.

Corpus filenames and sources checked

Dictionary frames: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (Bárczi, Országh, and others, 1959–1962), on the MEK text and the Arcanum text; Czuczor and Fogarasi, A magyar nyelv szótára, for oktat; English Wiktionary; Hungarian Wiktionary. Literary lines are quoted only as those entries print them. József Attila, Szabó Lőrinc, Móra, Kosztolányi, Arany, and Petőfi are ÉrtSz’s citations. Jókai is Hungarian Wiktionary’s citation of megtanít. Rounds, Hungarian: An Essential Grammar, was not opened. 501 Hungarian Verbs was not opened. Index 2 does not list tanít.

ÉrtSz · tanít MEK · TANÍT · Arcanum · tanít · sense 1 Vkit tanít (vmire) · sense 1a Vmit tanít (vkinek) · Irodalmat … növendékeinek · infinitives írni, olvasni, korcsolyázni, úszni · sense 2 Jóra, rosszra · Arany becsűletre · József Attila · Móra · Kosztolányi · Szabó Lőrinc · sense 4 Azt tanítja a történelem, hogy… · Igekötős igék including megtanít, no gloss
English Wiktionary · tanít en.wiktionary · tanít · sense 1 “to teach (to pass on knowledge to)” · synonym oktat · coordinate tanul · Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek · Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket · (b) called most common
Hungarian Wiktionary · tanít hu.wiktionary · tanít · the case frames used on this page are the ÉrtSz and English Wiktionary lines
ÉrtSz · oktat Arcanum · oktat · sense 1 tárgyas · hivatalos · Vkit vmire oktat · Latinra, mennyiségtanra oktatja a tanulókat · sense 2 the rebuke
Czuczor–Fogarasi · oktat Arcanum · Czuczor · oktat · Csak személyt lehet oktatni · tudományra … oktat valakit · tudományt … tanít
English Wiktionary · oktat en.wiktionary · oktat · “to educate, to instruct, to teach” · synonyms include tanít · no case frame on that page
Hungarian Wiktionary · oktat hu.wiktionary · oktat · the case frame used on this page is the ÉrtSz line
Hungarian Wiktionary · megtanít hu.wiktionary · megtanít · Ismeretet magyarázva átad · English “teach” · Jókai a bor minden nyelvre megtanít
ÉrtSz · tanul MEK · TANUL · sense 1 Tanul vmit · tanul vkitől vmit · Petőfi dajkától
English Wiktionary · tanul en.wiktionary · tanul · sense 1 “to study, to learn” · from someone -tól/-től · coordinate tanít · sense 3 names -nál/-nél with no clause opened here
Hungarian Wiktionary · tanul hu.wiktionary · tanul · the case frame used on this page is the ÉrtSz line and the English Wiktionary ablative
Spanish sibling teach-es.html · enseñar dative Learner + accusative Content
German sibling teach-de.html · beibringen dative Learner + accusative Content · lehren double accusative
Russian sibling teach-ru.html · преподавать dative Learner + accusative Content · учить accusative Learner + dative Content

Records the accusative Learner and the sublative Content of tanít, the accusative Content and the dative Learner of the same lemma, the accusative Learner and the sublative of oktat, the preverb form megtanít with its printed gloss, and the nominative Learner and the ablative source of tanul. Does not open a second page for oktat.