kém

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Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

kém (plural kémek)

  1. (rare, poetic, archaic, now only in derivations and some compounds) spotter, watcher, scout (a person who [secretly] watches someone or ferrets something out)
  2. spy
    Synonym: spion

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative kém kémek
accusative kémet kémeket
dative kémnek kémeknek
instrumental kémmel kémekkel
causal-final kémért kémekért
translative kémmé kémekké
terminative kémig kémekig
essive-formal kémként kémekként
essive-modal — —
inessive kémben kémekben
superessive kémen kémeken
adessive kémnél kémeknél
illative kémbe kémekbe
sublative kémre kémekre
allative kémhez kémekhez
elative kémből kémekből
delative kémről kémekről
ablative kémtől kémektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		kémé kémeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		kéméi kémekéi
Possessive forms of kém
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kémem kémeim
2nd person sing. kémed kémeid
3rd person sing. kéme kémei
1st person plural kémünk kémeink
2nd person plural kémetek kémeitek
3rd person plural kémük kémeik

Derived terms

Compound words from the archaic sense ’spotter, scout’
Compound words from the sense ’spy’

See also

References

  1. ^ kém 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

  • kém 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

Vietnamese

Etymology

Probably non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 減 (SV: giảm).

Pronunciation

Adjective

kém

  1. less; lesser
  2. bad (at doing something)
    kém may mắn ― unlucky

Preposition

kém

  1. (time) preceding
    ba giờ kém mười ― ten to three o'clock-2:50

See also

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