mérce

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See also: merce, mercé, mercê, mērce, mērcē, and Mercè

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian merica (measure, bushel).

Pronunciation

Noun

mérce (plural mércék)

  1. measure, scale, gauge
  2. (figuratively) standard, yardstick, benchmark, touchstone, criterion

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mérce mércék
accusative mércét mércéket
dative mércének mércéknek
instrumental mércével mércékkel
causal-final mércéért mércékért
translative mércévé mércékké
terminative mércéig mércékig
essive-formal mérceként mércékként
essive-modal
inessive mércében mércékben
superessive mércén mércéken
adessive mércénél mércéknél
illative mércébe mércékbe
sublative mércére mércékre
allative mércéhez mércékhez
elative mércéből mércékből
delative mércéről mércékről
ablative mércétől mércéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
mércéé mércéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
mércééi mércékéi
Possessive forms of mérce
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mércém mércéim
2nd person sing. mércéd mércéid
3rd person sing. mércéje mércéi
1st person plural mércénk mércéink
2nd person plural mércétek mércéitek
3rd person plural mércéjük mércéik

Derived terms

Expressions

Further reading

  • mérce 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