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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ból/-ből (elative case suffix)
- (from inside an enclosed space) from, out of (question word: honnan? (“from where?”))
- Kiszabadultak a fogságból. ― They were released from captivity.
- A gyerekek kiszaladtak a házból. ― The children ran out of the house.
- (originating at) from
- Ez a kézirat az 1980-as évekből származik. ― This manuscript is from the 1980s.
- The end of some situation or condition.
- Felépültek a betegségükből. ― They have recovered from their illness.
- In some adverbs.
- hasból (“off the top of one's head”)
- egyből (“immediately, at once, right away”)
- igazából (“really, actually”)
- nagyjából (“roughly, by and large, on the whole”)
- újból (“again, once again, anew”)
- In some postpositions.
- jóvoltából (“thanks/due to”)
- alkalmából (“on the occasion of”)
Usage notes
- (elative case suffix) Variants:
- -ból is added to back-vowel words. Final -a changes to -á-.
- alma (“apple”) → Kifogytunk az almából. ― We ran out of apples.
- -ből is added to front-vowel words. Final -e changes to -é-.
- zene (“music”) → Kifogytunk a zenéből. ― We ran out of music.
- Dialectal variants: -bó/-bő, -bú/-bű, -bul/-bül.
Hungarian case suffixes
Case
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Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú
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Front vowel
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unrounded e, é, i, í
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rounded ö, ő, ü, ű
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nominative
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—
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accusative
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-t
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-ot / -at
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-et
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-öt
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dative
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-nak
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-nek
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instrumental
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-val
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-vel
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causal-final
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-ért
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translative
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-vá
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-vé
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terminative
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-ig
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essive-formal
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-ként
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essive-modal
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-ul
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-ül
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inessive
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-ban
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-ben
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superessive
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-n
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-on
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-en
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-ön
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adessive
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-nál
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-nél
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illative
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-ba
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-be
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sublative
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-ra
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-re
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allative
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-hoz
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-hez
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-höz
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elative
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-ból
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-ből
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delative
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-ról
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-ről
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ablative
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-tól
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-től
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Note for all endings: Stem-final -a/-e changes to -á-/-é-, respectively, except before -ként. alma — almában, but almaként zene ― zenében, but zeneként
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