fáin

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See fájin.

Adjective

fáin (comparative fáinabb, superlative legfáinabb)

  1. (folksy, colloquial, slightly humorous) Alternative form of fájin.
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fáin fáinok
accusative fáint fáinokat
dative fáinnak fáinoknak
instrumental fáinnal fáinokkal
causal-final fáinért fáinokért
translative fáinná fáinokká
terminative fáinig fáinokig
essive-formal fáinként fáinokként
essive-modal fáinul —
inessive fáinban fáinokban
superessive fáinon fáinokon
adessive fáinnál fáinoknál
illative fáinba fáinokba
sublative fáinra fáinokra
allative fáinhoz fáinokhoz
elative fáinból fáinokból
delative fáinról fáinokról
ablative fáintól fáinoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fáiné fáinoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		fáinéi fáinokéi

Etymology 2

fa (“tree”) +‎ -i (possessive suffix) +‎ -n (case suffix)

Noun

fáin

  1. superessive singular of fái

Further reading

  • fáin , redirecting to fájin 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

Irish

Noun

fáin m sg

  1. vocative singular of fán (“straying, wandering, vagrancy; turning aside, averting; sparsity”)
  2. genitive singular of fán

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fáin fháin bhfáin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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