valami
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]valami
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | valami | valamik |
accusative | valamit | valamiket |
dative | valaminek | valamiknek |
instrumental | valamivel | valamikkel |
causal-final | valamiért | valamikért |
translative | valamivé | valamikké |
terminative | valamiig | valamikig |
essive-formal | valamiként | valamikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | valamiben | valamikben |
superessive | valamin | valamiken |
adessive | valaminél | valamiknél |
illative | valamibe | valamikbe |
sublative | valamire | valamikre |
allative | valamihez | valamikhez |
elative | valamiből | valamikből |
delative | valamiről | valamikről |
ablative | valamitől | valamiktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
valamié | valamiké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
valamiéi | valamikéi |
Possessive forms of valami | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | valamim | valamijeim (or valamiim) |
2nd person sing. | valamid | valamijeid (or valamiid) |
3rd person sing. | valamije | valamijei (or valamii) |
1st person plural | valamink | valamijeink (or valamiink) |
2nd person plural | valamitek | valamijeitek (or valamiitek) |
3rd person plural | valamijük | valamijeik (or valamiik) |
Derived terms
[edit]- valamicske
- valamiként
- valamiképp/valamiképpen
- vmi (abbreviation)
Compound words
Expressions
See also
[edit]Adverb
[edit]valami
- (informal) around, some, approximately (before an estimated number)
- Valami harmincan lehettek. ― There could have been around thirty of them.
- (informal) quite, rather, truly, indeed (as an intensifier before positive or negative adjectives, also used after the negative nem)
- Ez valami rettenetes! ― This is quite horrible!
- Nem valami jó ez a film. ― This movie is not very good.
Further reading
[edit]- valami 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
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