mennyi
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the më- stem variant of mi (“what?”) + -nyi (“-ful”, adjective-forming suffix).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]mennyi?
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | mennyi | — |
accusative | mennyit | — |
dative | mennyinek | — |
instrumental | mennyivel | — |
causal-final | mennyiért | — |
translative | mennyivé | — |
terminative | mennyiig | — |
essive-formal | mennyiként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | mennyiben | — |
superessive | mennyin | — |
adessive | mennyinél | — |
illative | mennyibe | — |
sublative | mennyire | — |
allative | mennyihez | — |
elative | mennyiből | — |
delative | mennyiről | — |
ablative | mennyitől | — |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
mennyié | — |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
mennyiéi | — |
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
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1st person sing. | mennyim | — |
2nd person sing. | mennyid | — |
3rd person sing. | mennyije | — |
1st person plural | mennyink | — |
2nd person plural | mennyitek | — |
3rd person plural | mennyijük | — |
Derived terms
[edit](Compound words):
(Expressions):
See also
[edit]- mennyire (“how much?”, to what degree, to what extent)
1 Semhogy and semmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as in inkább meghal, semhogy… ― he'll rather die than…).
2 Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations.
3 Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig).
Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”).
References
[edit]- ^ mennyi 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.
- ^ mennyi 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
[edit]- mennyi 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