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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -køː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *kiwe. Cognate with Southern Mansi кӱ (), кӱв (küw), Northern Mansi кав (kaw), Erzya кев (kev), Finnish kivi, Estonian kivi.

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural kövek)

  1. stone
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front rounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative kövek
accusative követ köveket
dative kőnek köveknek
instrumental kővel kövekkel
causal-final kőért kövekért
translative kővé kövekké
terminative kőig kövekig
essive-formal kőként kövekként
essive-modal
inessive kőben kövekben
superessive kövön köveken
adessive kőnél köveknél
illative kőbe kövekbe
sublative kőre kövekre
allative kőhöz kövekhez
elative kőből kövekből
delative kőről kövekről
ablative kőtől kövektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
kőé köveké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
kőéi kövekéi
Possessive forms of
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kövem köveim
2nd person sing. köved köveid
3rd person sing. köve kövei
1st person plural kövünk köveink
2nd person plural követek köveitek
3rd person plural kövük köveik
Derived terms
Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions

Etymology 2

Verb

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of kell (to be necessary)

Further reading

  • 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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