kevés

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See also: ķēves and ķēvēs

Hungarian

Etymology

Possibly derived from Proto-Uralic *kepä (light (weight)); compare with Estonian kebja (easy, quick), Finnish kepeä (light (weight), easy, quick), and Northern Sami geahpas (light).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ke‧vés
  • Rhymes: -eːʃ

Adjective

kevés (comparative kevesebb, superlative legkevesebb)

  1. few, little (not as many/much as usual or as expected)
    Antonym: sok
  2. (preceded by egy (a, an), with uncountable nouns) a little, some

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative kevés kevesek
accusative keveset keveseket
dative kevésnek keveseknek
instrumental kevéssel kevesekkel
causal-final kevésért kevesekért
translative kevéssé kevesekké
terminative kevésig kevesekig
essive-formal kevésként kevesekként
essive-modal
inessive kevésben kevesekben
superessive kevesen keveseken
adessive kevésnél keveseknél
illative kevésbe kevesekbe
sublative kevésre kevesekre
allative kevéshez kevesekhez
elative kevésből kevesekből
delative kevésről kevesekről
ablative kevéstől kevesektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
kevésé keveseké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
kevéséi kevesekéi

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • kevés 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