See -a in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "From the *sᴕ̈ third-person personal pronoun of the ancestor language after it was appended to the word of possession. According to some linguists this attachment happened in the Proto-Uralic era, while others think it happened much later when the Hungarian language became independent.",
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "hu-infl-nom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "stem in long/high vowel",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "back harmony",
"source": "declension",
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"class"
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{
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"class"
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{
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{
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"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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{
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"source": "declension",
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{
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"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-áig",
"source": "declension",
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"singular",
"terminative"
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative"
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{
"form": "-aként",
"source": "declension",
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"essive-formal",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"essive-formal",
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{
"form": "-ául",
"source": "declension",
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"essive-modal",
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-ában",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"inessive",
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"form": "-án",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"superessive"
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{
"form": "-ánál",
"source": "declension",
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"adessive",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
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{
"form": "-ába",
"source": "declension",
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"illative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
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{
"form": "-ára",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-ához",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"form": "-áról",
"source": "declension",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"delative",
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"form": "-ától",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
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{
"form": "-áé",
"source": "declension",
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"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative",
"singular"
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"possessed-single",
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"form": "-áéi",
"source": "declension",
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"singular"
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"text": "ház → (a) háza, az ő háza (“his/her/its house”) élet → (az) élete, az ő élete (“his/her/its life”) barát → (a) barátja (“his/her/its friend”) kapu → (a) kapuja (“his/her/its gate”) palota → (a) palotája (“his/her/its palace”) kert → (a) kertje (“his/her/its garden”) betű → (a) betűje (“his/her/its letter”) vese → (a) veséje (“his/her/its kidney”)"
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"text": "Anna háza (“Anna’s house”), a felkelő nap háza (“the house of the rising sun”) Anna élete (“Anna’s life”), a város élete (“the life of the city”) a király palotája (“the king’s palace”) a ház kapuja (“the gate of the house”) Anna kertje (“Anna’s garden”), a tulipán kertje (“the garden of the tulip”)"
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"-'s",
"-'s#Etymology 2"
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"text": "a szüleim háza (“my parents’ house”), a trópusi növények háza (“[the] house of [the] tropical plants”, literally “the tropical plants’ house”) a szüleim élete (“my parents’ lives”, literally “my parents’ life”), a könyvek élete (“[the] lives of [the] books”, literally “the books’ life”) az uralkodók palotája (“the rulers’ palace”) a szüleim kertje (“my parents’ garden”), Az elágazó ösvények kertje (“The Garden of Forking Paths”)"
}
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"text": "tud → tudja (“he/she should know it (subjunctive mood)”)"
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"text": "kér (“to request, ask for sth”) → kérte (“he/she requested it”)"
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"text": "-ról (“about”) → róla (“about him/her/it”)"
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"(personal suffix, archaic) Used to form the third-person singular indicative past indefinite, for back-vowel verbs. The front-vowel version is -e. The suffix currently used in this place is -t, -tt, or -ott. For the full paradigm, see the usage template."
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{
"word": "borissza"
},
{
"word": "bornemissza"
},
{
"word": "cafka"
},
{
"alt": "csala",
"english": "dubious",
"word": "finta"
},
{
"word": "csóka"
},
{
"word": "csusza"
},
{
"word": "duda"
},
{
"word": "furcsa"
},
{
"word": "gyagya"
},
{
"word": "handa(banda)"
},
{
"roman": "hepe",
"word": "hupá(s)"
},
{
"word": "hinta"
},
{
"word": "hulla"
},
{
"word": "huzavona"
},
{
"alt": "berek",
"word": "illa"
},
{
"word": "inga"
},
{
"word": "kajla"
},
{
"word": "kába"
},
{
"word": "koca"
},
{
"word": "kósza"
},
{
"english": "dumb",
"word": "kuka"
},
{
"word": "kusza"
},
{
"english": "debated",
"word": "kutya"
},
{
"word": "léha"
},
{
"english": "debated",
"word": "morzsa"
},
{
"word": "pala"
},
{
"word": "pecá(zik)"
},
{
"word": "pilla"
},
{
"english": "debated",
"word": "pofa"
},
{
"english": "debated",
"word": "pongyola"
},
{
"word": "potya"
},
{
"word": "puha"
},
{
"english": "dubious",
"word": "ronda"
},
{
"word": "rozoga"
},
{
"word": "satra(fa)"
},
{
"word": "sima"
},
{
"alt": "zene",
"word": "bona"
}
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"etymology_text": "Along with its front-vowel counterpart -e, from the diphthongs -ai̮/-ei̮, developing to -á/-é, then shortened to this form by the end of the early Old Hungarian period. After the participle suffix became fixed as -ó/-ő, the remaining words suffixed with -a/-e underwent conversion; some became adjectives, others, nouns.",
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