Home  ›  From Hungarian  ›  to German
🇭🇺 → 🇩🇪

How easy is German for Hungarian speakers?

Going from Hungarian to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
18%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
17%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Uralic ↔ Indo-European

Open the interactive comparison →

Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇭🇺 Hungarian
Die Universität hat ein modernes Programm für Kunst und Kultur.
🇩🇪 German
Az egyetemnek modern programja van a művészet és a kultúra terén.
🇭🇺 Hungarian
Der Arzt arbeitet im Krankenhaus und hilft vielen Menschen jeden Tag.
🇩🇪 German
Az orvos a kórházban dolgozik és minden nap sok embernek segít.

Other easy languages for Hungarian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Hungarian:

Think you can tell them apart?

A quick 3-question check between Hungarian and German. No signup.