nosztalgia

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Hungarian

Etymology

From French nostalgie, from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, a return home) + ἄλγος (álgos, pain, suffering).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: nosz‧tal‧gia
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

nosztalgia (plural nosztalgiák)

  1. (literary) nostalgia, homesickness (a longing for home or familiar surroundings)
    Synonym: honvágy
  2. nostalgia (yearning for the things of the past)
    Synonyms: vágyódás, sóvárgás, áhítozás

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative nosztalgia nosztalgiák
accusative nosztalgiát nosztalgiákat
dative nosztalgiának nosztalgiáknak
instrumental nosztalgiával nosztalgiákkal
causal-final nosztalgiáért nosztalgiákért
translative nosztalgiává nosztalgiákká
terminative nosztalgiáig nosztalgiákig
essive-formal nosztalgiaként nosztalgiákként
essive-modal
inessive nosztalgiában nosztalgiákban
superessive nosztalgián nosztalgiákon
adessive nosztalgiánál nosztalgiáknál
illative nosztalgiába nosztalgiákba
sublative nosztalgiára nosztalgiákra
allative nosztalgiához nosztalgiákhoz
elative nosztalgiából nosztalgiákból
delative nosztalgiáról nosztalgiákról
ablative nosztalgiától nosztalgiáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
nosztalgiáé nosztalgiáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
nosztalgiáéi nosztalgiákéi
Possessive forms of nosztalgia
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. nosztalgiám nosztalgiáim
2nd person sing. nosztalgiád nosztalgiáid
3rd person sing. nosztalgiája nosztalgiái
1st person plural nosztalgiánk nosztalgiáink
2nd person plural nosztalgiátok nosztalgiáitok
3rd person plural nosztalgiájuk nosztalgiáik

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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