borospohár
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
boros (“wine”) + pohár (“glass”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
borospohár (plural borospoharak)
- wine glass (a glass vessel specifically used for serving and drinking wine)
Usage notes edit
The fact it is written as solid indicates the function or purpose, a change from the original, literal meaning,[1] which latter would be expressed by writing the elements separately: boros pohár (“any kind of glass vessel contaminated with or containing wine”).
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | borospohár | borospoharak |
| accusative | borospoharat | borospoharakat |
| dative | borospohárnak | borospoharaknak |
| instrumental | borospohárral | borospoharakkal |
| causal-final | borospohárért | borospoharakért |
| translative | borospohárrá | borospoharakká |
| terminative | borospohárig | borospoharakig |
| essive-formal | borospohárként | borospoharakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | borospohárban | borospoharakban |
| superessive | borospoháron | borospoharakon |
| adessive | borospohárnál | borospoharaknál |
| illative | borospohárba | borospoharakba |
| sublative | borospohárra | borospoharakra |
| allative | borospohárhoz | borospoharakhoz |
| elative | borospohárból | borospoharakból |
| delative | borospohárról | borospoharakról |
| ablative | borospohártól | borospoharaktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
borospoháré | borospoharaké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
borospoháréi | borospoharakéi |
| Possessive forms of borospohár | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | borospoharam | borospoharaim |
| 2nd person sing. | borospoharad | borospoharaid |
| 3rd person sing. | borospohara | borospoharai |
| 1st person plural | borospoharunk | borospoharaink |
| 2nd person plural | borospoharatok | borospoharaitok |
| 3rd person plural | borospoharuk | borospoharaik |
References edit
- ^ Section 105 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN
Further reading edit
- borospohár in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)