Comment

Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.

kuneho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In Hungarian it’s the same with “home” in particular. You say “I’m home.”. In Hungarian, I too say the exact same thing: “Otthon vagyok” (I’m home).

Your other two example works the same, you won’t say in Hungarian “I’m school” (Iskola vagyok (it means I am literally a school)). But you say “IskoláBAN vagyok” (I’m at school) or “PostÁN vagyok” (I’m at the post office. Notice the suffix in this case is completely different, but that’s another story of Hungarian)

source

Sort:hotnew top

vpklotar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yup, probably something that is the same in many languages though I can only speculate. It’s also the same in swedish any way.

source
- elauso@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can confirm for German (“das Zuhause” - “ich bin Zuhause”)
  
  source
  - Hule@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Confirming for Romanian:
    
    house = casă
    
    home = acasă
    
    i’m home = sunt acasă
    
    i’m at school = sunt la şcoală
    
    Home is probably special :)
    
    source
  - kuneho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    okay, so this means the word ‘home’ is actually special accross languages 😆.
    
    and not neccessairly the home as homeland like haza in hungarian ('cause that’s not even a noun (tho it is somewhat equivalent with home)), home like… your home.
    
    source
force@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In Hungarian it comes from literally combining “ott” (there) + “honn”/“ház” (house/home). “itthon” is the same way except with “itt” (here).

source
- kuneho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, though I was like this is some behind the scenes or dvd extras material :P
  
  source