fontos

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Hungarian

Etymology

font (“pound”) +‎ -os (adjective-forming suffix), literally “the weight of a pound, heavy”. Compare Polish ważny.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: fon‧tos
  • Rhymes: -oʃ

Adjective

fontos (comparative fontosabb, superlative legfontosabb)

  1. important
    Synonyms: lényeges, jelentős
    Antonyms: lényegtelen, jelentéktelen
  2. (after a numeral) -pound, of the value or weight of the given pounds
    tízfontos bankjegy ― a ten-pound note

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fontos fontosak
accusative fontosat fontosakat
dative fontosnak fontosaknak
instrumental fontossal fontosakkal
causal-final fontosért fontosakért
translative fontossá fontosakká
terminative fontosig fontosakig
essive-formal fontosként fontosakként
essive-modal — —
inessive fontosban fontosakban
superessive fontoson fontosakon
adessive fontosnál fontosaknál
illative fontosba fontosakba
sublative fontosra fontosakra
allative fontoshoz fontosakhoz
elative fontosból fontosakból
delative fontosról fontosakról
ablative fontostól fontosaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fontosé fontosaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		fontoséi fontosakéi

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ fontos in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • (important): fontos 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
  • (……-pound): fontos 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
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