öreg

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Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language or Proto-Uralic. Compare Turkish iri, Erzya сыре (siŕe).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: öreg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Adjective

öreg (comparative öregebb, superlative legöregebb)

  1. (chiefly of people) old (not young, having existed or lived for a long time; compare régi (“not new”))
    Synonyms: idős, agg, vén, koros, éltes
    Antonyms: fiatal, ifjú
    Az öreg halász és a tenger ― The Old Man and the Sea (a novella by Ernest Hemingway)
  2. (dialectal, archaic) great, big, grand
    Synonym: nagy
    öreg hiba ― big mistake
    öregujj ― big toe
    öregszülő ― grandparent
  3. (regional, of food) dense
    Synonym: sűrű
  4. (folksy, of times of day) late
    Synonym: késő
    öreg este ― late evening

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative öreg öregek
accusative öreget öregeket
dative öregnek öregeknek
instrumental öreggel öregekkel
causal-final öregért öregekért
translative öreggé öregekké
terminative öregig öregekig
essive-formal öregként öregekként
essive-modal — —
inessive öregben öregekben
superessive öregen öregeken
adessive öregnél öregeknél
illative öregbe öregekbe
sublative öregre öregekre
allative öreghez öregekhez
elative öregből öregekből
delative öregről öregekről
ablative öregtől öregektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		öregé öregeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		öregéi öregekéi

Derived terms

Compound words

Noun

öreg (plural öregek)

  1. old person
  2. (colloquial) the leader of a community
  3. (often with a possessive suffix) (colloquial) one’s parents
  4. (with a first-person possessive suffix) (colloquial) man, bro (form of address for a person of roughly equal age and status)
    Synonym: öcsém

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative öreg öregek
accusative öreget öregeket
dative öregnek öregeknek
instrumental öreggel öregekkel
causal-final öregért öregekért
translative öreggé öregekké
terminative öregig öregekig
essive-formal öregként öregekként
essive-modal — —
inessive öregben öregekben
superessive öregen öregeken
adessive öregnél öregeknél
illative öregbe öregekbe
sublative öregre öregekre
allative öreghez öregekhez
elative öregből öregekből
delative öregről öregekről
ablative öregtől öregektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		öregé öregeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		öregéi öregekéi
Possessive forms of öreg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. öregem öregeim
2nd person sing. öreged öregeid
3rd person sing. örege öregei
1st person plural öregünk öregeink
2nd person plural öregetek öregeitek
3rd person plural öregük öregeik

See also

Further reading

  • öreg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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