[Breogan]

Originally Posted by prometheus

It's not weird. The essence is that the Hungarian language has only a generalised pronoun for the third person, which means "he", "she" and "it". The author of this small introduction probably wanted to say that Hungarians who learn foreign languages, not having the grammatical gender in their mother tongue, tend to make such mistakes like confusing "he" nad "she" (el and ella etc)

It is intersting to note that the absence of the grammatical gender is a common trait shared by all Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Mongolian and Tunguso-Manchurian languages.

I hadn't understood properly, thinking of nouns and not just the third person pronoun. I see now, thanks.