hányas

• hanyas (folksy or dialectal)

hány +‎ -as

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: há‧nyas
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

hányas (interrogative)

1. (interrogative) what? (representing which digit or number?)

   Hányas szám van odaírva? ― What number is written there?

2. (interrogative) what size?

   Hányas cipőt hordasz? ― What is your shoe size? (literally, “What-size shoe do you wear?”)

3. (interrogative) what number? which?

   Hányas busszal megyünk? ― Which bus are we taking? (literally, “With what-number bus are we going?”)

4. (interrogative) which (train, bus, etc., in terms of its time of departure)?

   Hányas vonattal mész/jössz? ― Which train are you taking? (literally, “With what-number train are you going/coming?”)

The following nominal numerals (adjectives or nouns), coined from numerals (with the suffix -s/-os/-as/-es/-ös in Hungarian), refer to items designated with a specific number, such as No. 1, No. 2 etc. (as opposed to 1st, 2nd etc.). Question word: hányas? Examples:

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hányas

1. (interrogative) which digit or number?
2. (interrogative) which person or thing, identified by a number?
3. (interrogative) what grade (in school)?
4. (interrogative) a person of which birthyear?
   • 1976 (first broadcast on the radio), György Szilágyi, Hanyas vagy?, translation by Leslie A. Kery

     Hanyas vagy? ’28-as? / Mi félszavakból megértjük egymást.

     What are you? ’28-er? / We understand our shorthand way of speaking.

• hányas 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