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52 while the adjectival participles are inflected as adjectives, and, like these, may stand for the substantive; for instance—


 * 1. Egy szenvedő ember, a suffering man;
 * 2. Egy szenvedő, a sufferer.

Note.—The present participle may be used either as adjective or substantive. In the first case it is translated into English with the present participle (as shown above in sentence 1): in the second by the substantive derived from the respective verb by inflecting it with -er; for instance, szenvedő, sufferer; iró, writer; látogató, visitor, &c.

Before other verbs can be conjugated, it is necessary to learn the irregular verb lenni, to be.