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Hungarian
Etymology
-je (possessive suffix, referring to the day of a month) + -n (“on”, superessive suffix)
Pronunciation
Suffix
-jén
- on the specified day of the month, in this case, the 1st (attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers)
- október 1-jén ― on October 1st (literally, “on 1st of October”)
- június elsején ― on June the first
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)
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