zönge

Hungarian

Etymology

Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. From a variant of the verb zeng (“to ring, resound”), with the archaic adjective-forming suffix -e, here used to create a noun.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈzøŋɡɛ]
Hyphenation: zön‧ge
Rhymes: -ɡɛ

Noun

zönge (usually uncountable, plural zöngék)

(archaic) the vibration of a sound
(archaic) musical note/tone
(phonetics, phonology) voicing (a classification of speech sounds, associated with vocal cord vibration)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	zönge	zöngék
accusative	zöngét	zöngéket
dative	zöngének	zöngéknek
instrumental	zöngével	zöngékkel
causal-final	zöngéért	zöngékért
translative	zöngévé	zöngékké
terminative	zöngéig	zöngékig
essive-formal	zöngeként	zöngékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	zöngében	zöngékben
superessive	zöngén	zöngéken
adessive	zöngénél	zöngéknél
illative	zöngébe	zöngékbe
sublative	zöngére	zöngékre
allative	zöngéhez	zöngékhez
elative	zöngéből	zöngékből
delative	zöngéről	zöngékről
ablative	zöngétől	zöngéktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	zöngéé	zöngéké
non-attributive possessive - plural	zöngééi	zöngékéi

Possessive forms of zönge
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	zöngém	zöngéim
2nd person sing.	zöngéd	zöngéid
3rd person sing.	zöngéje	zöngéi
1st person plural	zöngénk	zöngéink
2nd person plural	zöngétek	zöngéitek
3rd person plural	zöngéjük	zöngéik

Derived terms

zöngés → zöngésedik, zöngésít, zöngésség
zöngétlen → zöngétlenít, zöngétlenedik, zöngétlenség

References

^ zönge 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.