-én

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "en"

Hungarian

Etymology

-e (possessive suffix, referring to the day of a month) +‎ -n (“on”, superessive suffix)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
Rhymes: -eːn

Suffix

-én

on the specified day of the month (attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers)
január 21-én ― on January 21st (literally, “on 21st of January”)

szeptember negyedikén ― on September the fourth

Usage notes

Variants:
-án — in accordance with the vowel harmony of the numerals, with 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th (or these numbers plus 10 or 20), as well as 20th and 30th

-én — in accordance with the vowel harmony of the numerals, with 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th (or these numbers plus 10 or 20), as well as 11th, 21st, and 31st

-jén — only after 1st of a month: elsején or 1-jén (the 2015 edition of the spelling regulations also allows -én for the latter)

See also

Category:Hungarian ordinal numbers, also used for days of months when supplemented with a possessive suffix
{{U:hu:num-odik}}, ordinal-number suffixes (“-th”)
-a/-ja/-e/-je, possessive suffixes (“of”), see also its other suffixed forms at Declension

Old Irish

Suffix

-én

Form of -án used after a palatalised consonant.

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