Hungarian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)

This grammar reference is very clear and comprehensive. It is not a course to follow, I.e. does not start at a basic level and move to more complex structures. It is organized by parts of speech, and charts the facts. The illustrative sentences give a clear idea of the principles discussed. The main problem is not with the book, but with its subject: the Hungarian language is as good as impossible for the English speaker to really learn. But you can try.

Great book for navigating through Hungarian’s difficult Grammar

This book is an essential reference for anyone studying Hungarian. It covers grammar with understandable explanations and examples making all elements of the language approachable. The index is sufficiently detailed to be able to find the desired explanation without having to leaf through the book in search of answers.

This book is a comprehensive and extremely detailed reference book but is NOT a step-by-step how-to learn Hungarian book. Students must have some Hungarian language skills before approaching this book, which discusses the nuances and of various grammatical structures but does not have anything approaching lessons, chapter readings or exercises. Hungarian language beginners will be completely lost by the second chapter.

I am learning Hungarian and taking a weekly online course. The approach is phrase based immersion. However, my brain can’t learn these phrases without knowing how they are structured grammatically. This book has been very helpful. I do have a background in linguistics. Without that, I do think it would be a bit challenging to jump into the text. It assumes knowledge of English grammar.

The best Hungarian book I’ve found. It explains everything very well. It’s a super challlenging language for English speakers

I have used other Hungarian grammar books (smaller, easier to carry) and I got this one based on the author's "Colloquial Hungarian" textbook. This grammar is clear and comprehensive and satisfying. Such books are not 'read' but investigated, and so far I am delighted.

Used to learn a new language for fun. My son for some reason likes Hungary a lot.