favorit
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian favorito.
Pronunciation
Adjective
favorit (feminine favorita, masculine plural favorits, feminine plural favorites)
Noun
favorit m (plural favorits, feminine favorita)
Related terms
Further reading
- “favorit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “favorit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “favorit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “favorit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
Noun
favorit c (definite singular favoritten, indefinite plural favoritter, definite plural favoritterne)
- (sports) front runner, the expected champion
Adjective
favorit
- favourite
- Min favorit by er København. - My favourite city is Copenhagen.
References
- “favorit” in Den Danske Ordbog
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Favorit (“favourite”).
Pronunciation
Noun
favorit (plural favoritok)
- favourite, front runner (contestant or competitor thought most likely to win)
- Synonym: kedvenc
- 2016, Lajos Szabó, Magyar olimpiai sikerek 1896–2012: Athéntól Londonig, Budapest: Kossuth Kiadó, →ISSN, page 47:
- Vívásban az igazi meglepetést tulajdonképpen Elek Ilona szolgáltatta. Korabeli feljegyzések szerint az első számú esélyessel vívott asszójánál a gyengébb idegzetűek elhagyták a termet. Ki volt a favorit? Helene Mayer, egy Amerikából hazahívott, zsidó származású német vívónő.
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Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | favorit | favoritok |
| accusative | favoritot | favoritokat |
| dative | favoritnak | favoritoknak |
| instrumental | favorittal | favoritokkal |
| causal-final | favoritért | favoritokért |
| translative | favorittá | favoritokká |
| terminative | favoritig | favoritokig |
| essive-formal | favoritként | favoritokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | favoritban | favoritokban |
| superessive | favoriton | favoritokon |
| adessive | favoritnál | favoritoknál |
| illative | favoritba | favoritokba |
| sublative | favoritra | favoritokra |
| allative | favorithoz | favoritokhoz |
| elative | favoritból | favoritokból |
| delative | favoritról | favoritokról |
| ablative | favorittól | favoritoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
favorité | favoritoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
favoritéi | favoritokéi |
| Possessive forms of favorit | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | favoritom | favoritjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | favoritod | favoritjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | favoritja | favoritjai |
| 1st person plural | favoritunk | favoritjaink |
| 2nd person plural | favoritotok | favoritjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | favoritjuk | favoritjaik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- favorit 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
- favorit in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch favoriet, from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”).
Pronunciation
Noun
favorit
- favourite:
- a person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.
- Synonyms: kesayangan, kegemaran
- a contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.
- a person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.
- (Internet) bookmark
Conjugation
| Conjugation of favorit (meng-, transitive) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root | favorit | ||||
| Active | Involuntary | Passive | Imperative | Jussive | |
| Active | |||||
| Locative | |||||
| Causative / Applicative1 | mengfavoritkan | difavoritkan | favoritkan | favoritkanlah | |
| Causative | |||||
| Locative | |||||
| Causative / Applicative1 | |||||
| 1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning. | |||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “favorit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
favorit m or n (feminine singular favorită, masculine plural favoriți, feminine and neuter plural favorite)
Declension
Declension of favorit
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | favorit | favorită | favoriți | favorite | ||
| definite | favoritul | favorita | favoriții | favoritele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | favorit | favorite | favoriți | favorite | ||
| definite | favoritului | favoritei | favoriților | favoritelor | |||
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
favòrīt m (Cyrillic spelling фаво̀рӣт)
- favourite (in a competition, usually sports)
Declension
Declension of favorit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | favòrīt | favoriti |
| genitive | favoríta | favorita |
| dative | favoritu | favoritima |
| accusative | favorita | favorite |
| vocative | favorite | favoriti |
| locative | favoritu | favoritima |
| instrumental | favoritom | favoritima |
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
favorit c
Declension
| Declension of favorit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | favorit | favoriten | favoriter | favoriterna |
| Genitive | favorits | favoritens | favoriters | favoriternas |