pálinka
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See also: palinka
English
Noun
pálinka (countable and uncountable, plural pálinkas)
- A traditional fruit brandy in the Carpathian Basin, known under several names, and invented in the Middle Ages.
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, compare Slovak pálenka.
Pronunciation
Noun
pálinka (plural pálinkák)
- brandy (a traditional Hungarian fruit brandy)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | pálinka | pálinkák |
| accusative | pálinkát | pálinkákat |
| dative | pálinkának | pálinkáknak |
| instrumental | pálinkával | pálinkákkal |
| causal-final | pálinkáért | pálinkákért |
| translative | pálinkává | pálinkákká |
| terminative | pálinkáig | pálinkákig |
| essive-formal | pálinkaként | pálinkákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | pálinkában | pálinkákban |
| superessive | pálinkán | pálinkákon |
| adessive | pálinkánál | pálinkáknál |
| illative | pálinkába | pálinkákba |
| sublative | pálinkára | pálinkákra |
| allative | pálinkához | pálinkákhoz |
| elative | pálinkából | pálinkákból |
| delative | pálinkáról | pálinkákról |
| ablative | pálinkától | pálinkáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
pálinkáé | pálinkáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
pálinkáéi | pálinkákéi |
| Possessive forms of pálinka | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | pálinkám | pálinkáim |
| 2nd person sing. | pálinkád | pálinkáid |
| 3rd person sing. | pálinkája | pálinkái |
| 1st person plural | pálinkánk | pálinkáink |
| 2nd person plural | pálinkátok | pálinkáitok |
| 3rd person plural | pálinkájuk | pálinkáik |
Derived terms
Compound words
Descendants
- → Romanian: palincă
Further reading
- pálinka 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