Uloga prefiksa meg- i el- u izražavanju glagoskog vida u mađarskom i njihovi ekvivalenti u srpskom i engleskom jeziku

Abstract

In this paper we attempt to analyse and compare Hungarian prefixes meg- and el- with their Serbian equivalents, as well as to offer their English translations. The tables in paper support the division of prefixes and present illustratively the semantical diversity and richness of the languages, which were analysed in the corpus.

Special attention was paid to the above mentioned Hungarian prefixes, due to their similar role in providing verbal aspect, as is the case with some prefixes in Serbian. The problem area is defining the verbal aspect in Hungarian and English, the grammatical category that has long been present in Serbian and other Slavic languages. Nevertheless, this does not mean we cannot speak of perfectiveness and imperfectiveness in Hungarian and English, although there are other means of expressing it.

The aim of this paper is to present contrastive comparison of verbs with prefixes of two languages that have more complex systems of verbal morphology (Serbian and Hungarian) as opposed to a non-related language (English), where verbal morphology is less expressed in terms of verbal aspect. We will also try to offer adequate translation equivalents for Serbian and English, thereby contributing to the translation practice.