portré

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Porträt, from French portrait, from Late Latin protrahere.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

portré (plural portrék)

  1. (art) portrait (a work of art depicting a person)
    Synonyms: arckép, képmás, ábrázolás
  2. (figurative) portrait (an accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.)
    Synonyms: jellemrajz, jellemkép

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative portré portrék
accusative portrét portrékat
dative portrénak portréknak
instrumental portréval portrékkal
causal-final portréért portrékért
translative portrévá portrékká
terminative portréig portrékig
essive-formal portréként portrékként
essive-modal
inessive portréban portrékban
superessive portrén portrékon
adessive portrénál portréknál
illative portréba portrékba
sublative portréra portrékra
allative portréhoz portrékhoz
elative portréból portrékból
delative portréról portrékról
ablative portrétól portréktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
portréé portréké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
portrééi portrékéi
Possessive forms of portré
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. portrém portréim
2nd person sing. portréd portréid
3rd person sing. portréja portréi
1st person plural portrénk portréink
2nd person plural portrétok portréitok
3rd person plural portréjuk portréik

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

Further reading

  • portré 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