sereg

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See also: šereg

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, compare Old Turkic (çerig, soldier, soldiery, army). Cf. also ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ (ǰerge).

Pronunciation

Noun

sereg (plural seregek)

  1. (military) army
    Synonym: hadsereg
  2. flock, crowd, multitude (a large number of people)
    Synonyms: tömeg, sokaság
  3. flock (e.g. of birds or locusts)
  4. heap, pile, lot (great number of things)
    Synonyms: halom, rakás, rengeteg

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative sereg seregek
accusative sereget seregeket
dative seregnek seregeknek
instrumental sereggel seregekkel
causal-final seregért seregekért
translative sereggé seregekké
terminative seregig seregekig
essive-formal seregként seregekként
essive-modal
inessive seregben seregekben
superessive seregen seregeken
adessive seregnél seregeknél
illative seregbe seregekbe
sublative seregre seregekre
allative sereghez seregekhez
elative seregből seregekből
delative seregről seregekről
ablative seregtől seregektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
seregé seregeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
seregéi seregekéi
Possessive forms of sereg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. seregem seregeim
2nd person sing. sereged seregeid
3rd person sing. serege seregei
1st person plural seregünk seregeink
2nd person plural seregetek seregeitek
3rd person plural seregük seregeik

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Further reading

  • sereg 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