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Sz- mortifying medial verbs follow the same euphonic changes as the sz- mortifying active verbs, and are then inflected like other medial or neuter verbs.

Impersonal verbs are those which are used only in a general sense without any person as nominative case, and which take in English the word "it" before them.

Impersonal verbs are of two kinds: (1) those which express mere action and cannot be referred to any object or person; as villámlik, it lightens: (2) those verbs which are used in the third person only (all so-called impersonal verbs are used in the third person singular), but may relate to the first, second, or third person, governing in the dative or accusative case, according to the sense of the verb; for instance, illik nekem, it is becoming for me, it is meet for me; engem illet, it concerns me; fáj nekem, it pains me (nekem is here in the dative case, and the sentence fáj nekem means literally, it gives me pains).