Laravel localization in Hungarian Magyar

Locale codes

Set the base locale in config/app.php. For regional variants, Hungarian commonly uses: hu_HU

// config/app.php
'locale' => 'hu',
'fallback_locale' => 'en',

// Or switch at runtime
App::setLocale('hu');

Plural rules: what Hungarian actually needs

CLDR defines 2 cardinal categories for Hungarian. The sample numbers below were computed by ICU for this exact locale:

Laravel's trans_choice() maps numbers to 2 pipe-separated forms for this locale:

// lang/hu/messages.php
'items' => ':count item|:count items'

// Usage
trans_choice('messages.items', $count, ['count' => $count]);

Try any number live in the pluralization tester.

Localized dates with Carbon

Real output for Hungarian (hu locale), generated by Carbon for March 21, 2026:

$date = now()->locale('hu');

$date->translatedFormat('l, j F Y');
// "szombat, 21 március 2026"

$date->isoFormat('LLLL');
// "2026. március 21., szombat 14:30"

$date->isoFormat('L');
// "2026.03.21."

$date->subDays(3)->diffForHumans();
// "3 hónapja"

What to watch out for in Hungarian

• Agglutinative with an extensive case-suffix system; suffixes attach to nouns, so raw placeholder concatenation breaks grammar.
• Vowel harmony determines which suffix variant attaches (e.g. -ban/-ben).
• Dates are written year-first with dots (2026. 03. 01.) and family name precedes given name.
• No grammatical gender (a single pronoun ő covers he/she); decimal comma with space as thousands separator.

Framework strings already translated

Laravel's own validation, auth and pagination strings are maintained in Hungarian by the open-source Laravel-Lang project (MIT). Install them, then manage your app's own strings live:

composer require laravel-lang/common --dev
php artisan lang:add hu
php artisan lang:update