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 ==== '''Married Women''' ====
-Names of Hungarian married women take on special forms. Traditionally, the ending -né is added to her husbands given name and indicates that she is married, or Mrs. For example:
+Hungarian women keep their birth name throughout their life, married or not.  There is no married name and maiden name in the sense familiar to Americans.  However, in Hungarian a married woman can be referred to as a man's wife.  To do this, the suffix -né is attached to the husband's given name.  For example:
-* Nagy, Jánosné means Mrs. John Nagy
-* Kovács Jánosné means Mrs. John Smith
+* Nagy Jánosné means wife of John Nagy
-* Klausenberger Ignáczné Bival Rosália means that Rosália     Bival married a man named Ignácz Klausenberger
+* Kovács Jánosné means wife of John Smith
+* Klausenberger Ignáczné Bival Rosália means Rosália Bival wife of Ignácz Klausenberger
+Although Nagy Jánosné resembles the American formal Mrs. John Nagy, use of -né belongs to Hungarian language grammar not Hungarian naming convention.
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