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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. (lemmy.world)
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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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)

[–] vpklotar@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yup, probably something that is the same in many languages though I can only speculate. It's also the same in swedish any way.

[–] elauso@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can confirm for German ("das Zuhause" - "ich bin Zuhause")

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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 :)

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 7 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.

[–] force@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In Hungarian it comes from literally combining "ott" (there) + "honn"/"ház" (house/home). "itthon" is the same way except with "itt" (here).

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, though I was like this is some behind the scenes or dvd extras material for this thread :P