Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

mell (chest) +‎ kas (cage)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛlkɒʃ]
  • Hyphenation: mell‧kas
  • Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Noun edit

mellkas (plural mellkasok)

  1. (anatomy) chest, thorax

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative mellkas mellkasok
accusative mellkast mellkasokat
dative mellkasnak mellkasoknak
instrumental mellkassal mellkasokkal
causal-final mellkasért mellkasokért
translative mellkassá mellkasokká
terminative mellkasig mellkasokig
essive-formal mellkasként mellkasokként
essive-modal
inessive mellkasban mellkasokban
superessive mellkason mellkasokon
adessive mellkasnál mellkasoknál
illative mellkasba mellkasokba
sublative mellkasra mellkasokra
allative mellkashoz mellkasokhoz
elative mellkasból mellkasokból
delative mellkasról mellkasokról
ablative mellkastól mellkasoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
mellkasé mellkasoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
mellkaséi mellkasokéi
Possessive forms of mellkas
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mellkasom mellkasaim
2nd person sing. mellkasod mellkasaid
3rd person sing. mellkasa mellkasai
1st person plural mellkasunk mellkasaink
2nd person plural mellkasotok mellkasaitok
3rd person plural mellkasuk mellkasaik

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • mellkas 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