hányas
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- hanyas (folksy or dialectal)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhaːɲɒʃ]
- Hyphenation: há‧nyas
- Rhymes: -ɒʃ
Determiner
hányas (interrogative)
- (interrogative) what? (representing which digit or number?)
- Hányas szám van odaírva? ― What number is written there?
- (interrogative) what size?
- Hányas cipőt hordasz? ― What is your shoe size? (literally, “What-size shoe[s] do you wear?”)
- (interrogative) what number? which?
- Hányas busszal megyünk? ― Which bus are we taking? (literally, “With what-number bus are we going?”)
- (interrogative) which (train, bus, etc., in terms of its time of departure)?
- Hányas vonattal mész/jössz? ― Which train are you taking? (literally, “With what-number train are you going/coming?”)
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: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 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
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) or Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Pronoun
hányas
- (interrogative) which digit or number?
- (interrogative) which person or thing, identified by a number?
- (interrogative) what grade (in school)?
- (interrogative) a person of which birthyear?
- 1976 (first broadcast on the radio), György Szilágyi, Hanyas vagy?, translation by Leslie A. Kery
- Hanyas vagy? ’28-as? / Mi félszavakból megértjük egymást.
- What are you? ’28-er? / We understand our shorthand way of speaking.
- 1976 (first broadcast on the radio), György Szilágyi, Hanyas vagy?, translation by Leslie A. Kery
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
| Possessive forms of hányas | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | hányasom | — |
| 2nd person sing. | hányasod | — |
| 3rd person sing. | hányasa | — |
| 1st person plural | hányasunk | — |
| 2nd person plural | hányasotok | — |
| 3rd person plural | hányasuk | — |
Further reading
- hányas 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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