kacsa
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kacsa
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Slovak kača (“duckling”).[1]
Noun
kacsa (plural kacsák)
- duck
- Synonym: réce
- canard (false or misleading report or story)
- bed urinal
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | kacsa | kacsák |
| accusative | kacsát | kacsákat |
| dative | kacsának | kacsáknak |
| instrumental | kacsával | kacsákkal |
| causal-final | kacsáért | kacsákért |
| translative | kacsává | kacsákká |
| terminative | kacsáig | kacsákig |
| essive-formal | kacsaként | kacsákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | kacsában | kacsákban |
| superessive | kacsán | kacsákon |
| adessive | kacsánál | kacsáknál |
| illative | kacsába | kacsákba |
| sublative | kacsára | kacsákra |
| allative | kacsához | kacsákhoz |
| elative | kacsából | kacsákból |
| delative | kacsáról | kacsákról |
| ablative | kacsától | kacsáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
kacsáé | kacsáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
kacsáéi | kacsákéi |
| Possessive forms of kacsa | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | kacsám | kacsáim |
| 2nd person sing. | kacsád | kacsáid |
| 3rd person sing. | kacsája | kacsái |
| 1st person plural | kacsánk | kacsáink |
| 2nd person plural | kacsátok | kacsáitok |
| 3rd person plural | kacsájuk | kacsáik |
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Etymology 2
kacs (“tendril”) + -a (possessive suffix)
Noun
kacsa
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | kacsa | — |
| accusative | kacsát | — |
| dative | kacsának | — |
| instrumental | kacsával | — |
| causal-final | kacsáért | — |
| translative | kacsává | — |
| terminative | kacsáig | — |
| essive-formal | kacsaként | — |
| essive-modal | kacsául | — |
| inessive | kacsában | — |
| superessive | kacsán | — |
| adessive | kacsánál | — |
| illative | kacsába | — |
| sublative | kacsára | — |
| allative | kacsához | — |
| elative | kacsából | — |
| delative | kacsáról | — |
| ablative | kacsától | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
kacsáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
kacsáéi | — |
References
- ^ kacsa 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
- kacsa 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