rendház

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Hungarian

Etymology

From rend (monastic order) +‎ ház (house).

Pronunciation

Noun

rendház (plural rendházak)

  1. priory, monastery, convent, friary, cloister (a dwelling house of a monastic order)
    • 1930, Gyula Krúdy, Boldogult úrfikoromban (Blessed Days of my Youth):
      Tömzsi, energikus férfiú volt, akit éppen azért küldtek ebbe az ősi kolostorba, hogy a rendház ügyeit, bajait, hiányosságait rendbe hozza.
      He was a stocky, energetic man who had been sent to this ancient monastery precisely to put the affairs, troubles, and shortcomings of the monastery in order.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative rendház rendházak
accusative rendházat rendházakat
dative rendháznak rendházaknak
instrumental rendházzal rendházakkal
causal-final rendházért rendházakért
translative rendházzá rendházakká
terminative rendházig rendházakig
essive-formal rendházként rendházakként
essive-modal rendházul
inessive rendházban rendházakban
superessive rendházon rendházakon
adessive rendháznál rendházaknál
illative rendházba rendházakba
sublative rendházra rendházakra
allative rendházhoz rendházakhoz
elative rendházból rendházakból
delative rendházról rendházakról
ablative rendháztól rendházaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
rendházé rendházaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
rendházéi rendházakéi
Possessive forms of rendház
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. rendházam rendházaim
2nd person sing. rendházad rendházaid
3rd person sing. rendháza rendházai
1st person plural rendházunk rendházaink
2nd person plural rendházatok rendházaitok
3rd person plural rendházuk rendházaik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • rendház 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