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black t-shirt with the Szeretlek, Hungarian I Love You Script Tee design, worn by a Hungarian American man in his fifties, standing in the dining room of a Hungarian American home in Cleveland
black t-shirt with the Szeretlek, Hungarian I Love You Script Tee design, shown on its own without a model

Szeretlek, Hungarian I Love You Script Tee

One Hungarian word that carries the subject, the verb and the object.

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Szeretlek, one word that carries the whole sentence

Hungarian folds subject, verb and object into a single word, and the design lets it stretch. Nine letters run diagonally across a watercolor heart in dark cocoa script, rising to the right, the opening S swinging out in a wide loop that drops below the paint on the left, and the final K closing on a flourish that stops just short of the right edge. Under them, one long underline. The heart itself is two brushed lobes, rose on the left and blush on the right, overlapping in the middle with rough torn edges. Five flat red hearts are scattered over and below it, plus small paint specks at either side, all sitting on black.

The one nobody else prints

Almost nobody prints this one. Search for a szeretlek hungarian love shirt and the results run thin, which is precisely the argument for it: it goes to the Hungarian-American in Cleveland or Passaic who has never once found their language on a rack. It is also a fair pick for a partner who is learning, since one word is a manageable homework assignment.

How to say it out loud

Say it SEH-ret-lek, stress on the first syllable, and the shirt stops being decoration. Nine letters, one meaning, and no room at all to hedge. The lettering is dark rather than white, so the painted heart keeps the color and the word arrives second, which suits a language that saves its declarations.

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