emeletes

Hungarian

Etymology

emelet +‎ -es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmɛlɛtɛʃ]
• Hyphenation: eme‧le‧tes
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Adjective

emeletes (not comparable)

1. multi-storey

   emeletes ház ― two-storey house

   emeletes ágy ― bunk bed

   emeletes busz ― double-decker bus

2. -storey (having the specified number of storeys)

   kilencemeletes épület ― nine-storey building

   tizenhét emeletes szálló ― seventeen-storey hotel (or seventeen multi-storey hotels, based on the other sense)

Usage notes

Compound adjectives with a numeral and the name of a unit (as in “a one-hour walk” or “a three-storey building”) are written as solid if both constituents are single words, e.g. egyórás séta (“a one-hour walk”), from egy and órás). By contrast, if either element is a compound word (or both of them are), their compound will be written as separate words, e.g. tizenegy órás út (“a trip/flight of eleven hours”)), from tizen+egy + órás or egy hónapos utazás (“a journey of one month”), from egy + hó+napos.^[1] (See also the analogous rule for material designations.) In practice, this rule is sometimes disregarded, especially in casual texts and in case of less common compounds.

The -van/-ven (“-ty”) in round tens are suffixes, so e.g. negyvennapos (“forty‑day”) is written as solid. On the other hand, compounds with a number always written separately, e.g. 6 éves. Also, adjectives (and nouns) for the denomination of coins, banknotes, and revenue stamps are written as solid, e.g. kétezerforintos bankjegy (“a 2000‑forint bill”), despite kétezerforintos having the compound kétezer (“2000”).

Declension

Inflection of emeletes
	singular	plural
nominative	emeletes	emeletesek
accusative	emeleteset emeletest	emeleteseket
dative	emeletesnek	emeleteseknek
instrumental	emeletessel	emeletesekkel
causal-final	emeletesért	emeletesekért
translative	emeletessé	emeletesekké
terminative	emeletesig	emeletesekig
essive-formal	emeletesként	emeletesekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	emeletesben	emeletesekben
superessive	emeletesen	emeleteseken
adessive	emeletesnél	emeleteseknél
illative	emeletesbe	emeletesekbe
sublative	emeletesre	emeletesekre
allative	emeleteshez	emeletesekhez
elative	emeletesből	emeletesekből
delative	emeletesről	emeletesekről
ablative	emeletestől	emeletesektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	emeletesé	emeleteseké
non-attributive possessive - plural	emeleteséi	emeletesekéi

Further reading

• emeletes 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
• emeletes in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)