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In Hungarian it's the same with "home" in particular. You say "I'm home.". In Hungarian, I too say the exact same thing: "Otthon vagyok" (I'm home).
Your other two example works the same, you won't say in Hungarian "I'm school" (Iskola vagyok (it means I am literally a school)). But you say "IskoláBAN vagyok" (I'm at school) or "PostÁN vagyok" (I'm at the post office. Notice the suffix in this case is completely different, but that's another story of Hungarian)
Yup, probably something that is the same in many languages though I can only speculate. It's also the same in swedish any way.
Can confirm for German ("das Zuhause" - "ich bin Zuhause")
Confirming for Romanian:
Home is probably special :)
okay, so this means the word 'home' is actually special accross languages 😆.
and not neccessairly the home as homeland like haza in hungarian ('cause that's not even a noun (tho it is somewhat equivalent with home)), home like... your home.
In Hungarian it comes from literally combining "ott" (there) + "honn"/"ház" (house/home). "itthon" is the same way except with "itt" (here).
Yeah, though I was like this is some behind the scenes or dvd extras material for this thread :P