hatvanas

Hungarian

Hungarian numbers ^(edit)

		600
←  50	←  59	60	61  →	70  →
		6
Cardinal: hatvan     Nominal: hatvanas     Ordinal: hatvanadik     A.o.: hatvanadszor, hatvanadjára     Adverbial: hatvanszor     Multiplier: hatvanszoros     Distributive: hatvanasával     Fractional: hatvanad     Number of people: hatvanan

Alternative forms

• 60-as

Etymology

hatvan (“sixty”) +‎ -as (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒtvɒnɒʃ]
• Hyphenation: hat‧va‧nas
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Adjective

hatvanas (not comparable)

1. the number sixty

   a hatvanas szoba ― room number sixty

2. sixty-something-year-old, sexagenarian

   egy hatvanas férfi ― a man in his sixties

3. Ellipsis of 1960-as., (of the) sixties

   a hatvanas években ― in the sixties

Usage notes

The following nominal numerals (adjectives or nouns), coined from numerals (with the suffix -s/-os/-as/-es/-ös in Hungarian), refer to items designated with a specific number, such as No. 1, No. 2 etc. (as opposed to 1st, 2nd etc.). Question word: hányas? Examples:

• (single digits) pronounced names or symbols of numbers: nullás (0-s), egyes (1-es), kettes (2-es), hármas (3-as), négyes (4-es), ötös (5-ös), hatos (6-os), hetes (7-es), nyolcas (8-as), kilences (9-es)
• (usually 1–300, 900–999) public transport lines (e.g. négyes-hatos)
• numbered seats, rooms, cubicles, or other compartments
• motorways, highways, e.g. hatvanhatos út (“Route 66”)
• school grades: egyes (“F”), kettes (“D”), hármas (“C”), négyes (“B”), ötös (“A”)
• (multiples of 1, 2, 5) coins: ötös, tízes, húszas​―​colloquially also for thousand bills―, ötvenes, százas, kétszázas; bills: ötszázas, ezres, kétezres, ötezres, tízezres, húszezres
• (tens) decades in a century, e.g. 1970-es, 1980-as, 1990-es, 2000-es, 2010-es, 2020-as (… évek ’years’)
• (tens) decades of a person’s age: tízes (10-es), húszas (20-as), harmincas (30-as), negyvenes (40-es), ötvenes (50-es), hatvanas (60-as), hetvenes (70-es), nyolcvanas (80-as), kilencvenes (90-es)
• packages or sets with a given number of items
• (small numbers, up to 4 or 5) groups of people
• (round numbers) orders of magnitude: tízes, százas, ezres, tízezres, százezres, milliós, milliárdos, billiós, etc.
• numerical systems: kettes, tízes, tizenhatos (16-os), etc.
• (between 0 and 59) trains, coaches, and flights departing or arriving at some time, attached to the number of minutes
• people or groups identified by symbolic dates and other numerals: huszon­nyolcas, harminc­kettes, negyven­nyolcas, ötven­hatos, hatvan­nyolcas, nyolcvan­kilences

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	hatvanas	hatvanasak
accusative	hatvanasat	hatvanasakat
dative	hatvanasnak	hatvanasaknak
instrumental	hatvanassal	hatvanasakkal
causal-final	hatvanasért	hatvanasakért
translative	hatvanassá	hatvanasakká
terminative	hatvanasig	hatvanasakig
essive-formal	hatvanasként	hatvanasakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hatvanasban	hatvanasakban
superessive	hatvanason	hatvanasakon
adessive	hatvanasnál	hatvanasaknál
illative	hatvanasba	hatvanasakba
sublative	hatvanasra	hatvanasakra
allative	hatvanashoz	hatvanasakhoz
elative	hatvanasból	hatvanasakból
delative	hatvanasról	hatvanasakról
ablative	hatvanastól	hatvanasaktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	hatvanasé	hatvanasaké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hatvanaséi	hatvanasakéi

Noun

hatvanas (plural hatvanasok)

1. sexagenarian

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	hatvanas	hatvanasok
accusative	hatvanast	hatvanasokat
dative	hatvanasnak	hatvanasoknak
instrumental	hatvanassal	hatvanasokkal
causal-final	hatvanasért	hatvanasokért
translative	hatvanassá	hatvanasokká
terminative	hatvanasig	hatvanasokig
essive-formal	hatvanasként	hatvanasokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hatvanasban	hatvanasokban
superessive	hatvanason	hatvanasokon
adessive	hatvanasnál	hatvanasoknál
illative	hatvanasba	hatvanasokba
sublative	hatvanasra	hatvanasokra
allative	hatvanashoz	hatvanasokhoz
elative	hatvanasból	hatvanasokból
delative	hatvanasról	hatvanasokról
ablative	hatvanastól	hatvanasoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	hatvanasé	hatvanasoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hatvanaséi	hatvanasokéi

Possessive forms of hatvanas

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hatvanasom	hatvanasaim
2nd person sing.	hatvanasod	hatvanasaid
3rd person sing.	hatvanasa	hatvanasai
1st person plural	hatvanasunk	hatvanasaink
2nd person plural	hatvanasotok	hatvanasaitok
3rd person plural	hatvanasuk	hatvanasaik

Further reading

• hatvanas 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