tucat

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dutzend, from Middle High German tozen via tutzet, dutzet. First attested in 1579.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

tucat (plural tucatok)

  1. dozen (a set of twelve)
    Synonym: tizenkettő
    A zsemléből vettünk egy tucatot a vendégeknek. ― We bought a dozen of the buns for the guests.
  2. (colloquial) dozens, many (a large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred)
    Synonyms: sok, jó néhány

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tucat tucatok
accusative tucatot tucatokat
dative tucatnak tucatoknak
instrumental tucattal tucatokkal
causal-final tucatért tucatokért
translative tucattá tucatokká
terminative tucatig tucatokig
essive-formal tucatként tucatokként
essive-modal — —
inessive tucatban tucatokban
superessive tucaton tucatokon
adessive tucatnál tucatoknál
illative tucatba tucatokba
sublative tucatra tucatokra
allative tucathoz tucatokhoz
elative tucatból tucatokból
delative tucatról tucatokról
ablative tucattól tucatoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		tucaté tucatoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		tucatéi tucatokéi
Possessive forms of tucat
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tucatom tucatjaim
2nd person sing. tucatod tucatjaid
3rd person sing. tucatja tucatjai
1st person plural tucatunk tucatjaink
2nd person plural tucatotok tucatjaitok
3rd person plural tucatjuk tucatjaik

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ tucat in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ tucat in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • tucat 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
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