kerülünk

Kerülünk is a Hungarian verb form. It is the first-person plural present indicative of the verb kerülni. The root kerül- covers several related meanings, and the exact sense of kerülni depends on context and any prefixes attached to the verb.

Core senses of kerülni include movement around, bypassing, or avoiding something. In unprefixed usage, kerülni commonly expresses the idea of going around an object or place, or of passing by in a physical sense. With prefixes, the sense shifts toward avoidance or circumvention. For example, prefixed forms such as elkerülni or megkerülni describe avoiding or getting around a problem or obstacle, and these related verbs have corresponding present-tense forms used with we in the subject position (kerülünk) depending on the specific construction.

It is important to note that the sense of cost (how much something costs) is typically expressed with the bare verb kerül, not with its first-person plural present form kerülünk. The present-tense form kerülünk therefore tends to be interpreted in contexts of movement around something or, through prefixation, of avoidance or circumvention, rather than of price.

Usage considerations: kerülünk appears in narrative or descriptive text when the subject is “we” and the action is unfolding in the present. The form is contrasted with past tense forms such as kerültünk (we ended up or we were bypassed) and with future constructions formed from kerülni by appropriate Hungarian tense endings.

See also: kerülni, elkerülni, megkerülni.