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(adjective-forming suffix, appended to a noun) -shaped, -like, kind of, sort of (having a similar appearance, shape, looks as what the base word expresses)
Az egyik falon volt egy ablakforma nyílás. ― There was a windowlike opening on one wall.
(adjective-forming suffix, with the pronoun maga)like
egy magamforma ember ― someone like me
egy magadforma ember ― someone like you
(adjective-forming suffix, appended to an adjective) -shaped, -like (similar to, (somewhat) of the same nature, almost like what the base word expresses)
egy tízévesforma gyermek ― a child around ten years of age
(used as a noun, often derogatory) a form of, a sort of
Összetákolt valami emelvényformát. ― He put together some sort of platform.
Further reading
-forma 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