First, of all probably you do not greet your neighbor anymore. Sounds pessimistic but sadly true as well. At least in most urban areas and more and more villages.

Second, if you take Living Abroad’s – http://tinyurl.com/ye5uf8t – quiz and give the answer they suggest, you’ll be wrong…

(Answer: you can greet both elderly women and men by ‘Csókolom’. Ok, it’s not proper, but that’s how it is used)

Also, it worth to note that the idiom ‘Csókolom’ is a shortened and less polite version of ‘Kezét csókolom’. That is in fact, a note for note translation of the German/Austrian ‘Kiss die Hand’. Untill the 2nd WW this expression was widely used in it’s original german version, but written in Hungarian ‘Kisztihánd’.

I kiss your hand dear reader,

Cheers,

Dez

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