ágens

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Agent, from French agent, from Latin agens (“agent”).[1] With Latinate -ens ending.

Pronunciation

Noun

ágens (plural ágensek)

  1. (archaic) agent (one who acts in place of another)
    Synonym: ügynök
  2. agent (an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect)
  3. (grammar) agent

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ágens ágensek
accusative ágenst ágenseket
dative ágensnek ágenseknek
instrumental ágenssel ágensekkel
causal-final ágensért ágensekért
translative ágenssé ágensekké
terminative ágensig ágensekig
essive-formal ágensként ágensekként
essive-modal — —
inessive ágensben ágensekben
superessive ágensen ágenseken
adessive ágensnél ágenseknél
illative ágensbe ágensekbe
sublative ágensre ágensekre
allative ágenshez ágensekhez
elative ágensből ágensekből
delative ágensről ágensekről
ablative ágenstől ágensektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		ágensé ágenseké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		ágenséi ágensekéi
Possessive forms of ágens
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ágensem ágenseim
2nd person sing. ágensed ágenseid
3rd person sing. ágense ágensei
1st person plural ágensünk ágenseink
2nd person plural ágensetek ágenseitek
3rd person plural ágensük ágenseik

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

  • ágens 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
  • ágens in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
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