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Jer's Mystery Word
is
"Tessék"!!
(Ok, I hear you asking why is "tessék" a mystery word?)
While surfing the internet one day, I ran across a website of a person who had visited Hungary and one of the words he had a hard time figuring out the meaning of was the word "tessék". This reminded me of when I first came here, there was a word that was driving me crazy trying to figure out. It was several years before I was able to understand the word "tessék" since I seemed to hear it in so many different kinds of situations! Finally I realized that I wasn't stupid it was just one of those words with a lot of meanings!
Tessék the multifunctional word!
Pronounced "tesh-shek"
Tessék
- "Here
you are" when
handing something to somebody
Tessék
- "Come in"
when answering a knock at the door
Tessék
- "Hallo"
when answering the phone
Tessék ?- "What
can I do for you?"
in a shop
Tessék
- "Take
a seat" when
pointing to a chair
Tessék
- "Yes, it is"
when you are asking if a table or chair is free
Tessék?
- "Pardon?"
raise in pitch on the last syllable as a question.