hónap

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Hungarian

Etymology

(month) +‎ nap (day)

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: hó‧nap
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

hónap (plural hónapok)

  1. month

Usage notes

Adverbs of temporal nouns     (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time)
no suffix (the noun
can act as an adverb
)
nappal (daytime), reggel (early morning), délelőtt (late morning), délután (afternoon), este (evening), éjjel / éjszaka (night), and vasárnap (Sunday)
-kor (at) pirkadat / virradat (dawn), napkelte (sunrise), napnyugta (sunset), alkonyat (dusk), szürkület (twilight), éjfél (midnight), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (Easter) etc.)
-ban/-ben (in) dél (noon), hajnal (daybreak), names of months (januárdecember) and hónap (month), évszak (season), év (year) and specific years, évtized (decade) and longer periods
-n/-on/-en/-ön (on) days of the week (hétfőszombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (1st), másodika (2nd) etc.), nap (day), hét (week), nyár (summer), and tél (winter)
-val/-vel (with, assimilated: -szal/-szel) tavasz (spring), ősz (autumn, fall)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hónap hónapok
accusative hónapot hónapokat
dative hónapnak hónapoknak
instrumental hónappal hónapokkal
causal-final hónapért hónapokért
translative hónappá hónapokká
terminative hónapig hónapokig
essive-formal hónapként hónapokként
essive-modal
inessive hónapban hónapokban
superessive hónapon hónapokon
adessive hónapnál hónapoknál
illative hónapba hónapokba
sublative hónapra hónapokra
allative hónaphoz hónapokhoz
elative hónapból hónapokból
delative hónapról hónapokról
ablative hónaptól hónapoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
hónapé hónapoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
hónapéi hónapokéi
Possessive forms of hónap
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hónapom hónapjaim
2nd person sing. hónapod hónapjaid
3rd person sing. hónapja hónapjai
1st person plural hónapunk hónapjaink
2nd person plural hónapotok hónapjaitok
3rd person plural hónapjuk hónapjaik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • hónap 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