-ként
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ként
- (case suffix) as a, being a. Used to form the essive sense of the essive-formal case.
- turista (“tourist”) → turistaként (“as a tourist”)
- olvasott (“read”, that which has been read) → Jelölés olvasottként (“Mark[ing] as read”)
- (case suffix) like a(n), similar to a(n). Used to form the formal sense of the essive-formal case.
- futótűz (“wildfire”) → futótűzként (“like wildfire”)
Usage notesEdit
The same form is used with both back-and front-vowel words.
Hungarian case suffixes
Case | Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú |
Front vowel | |
---|---|---|---|
unrounded e, é, i, í |
rounded ö, ő, ü, ű | ||
nominative | — | ||
accusative | -t | ||
-ot / -at | -et | -öt | |
dative | -nak | -nek | |
instrumental | -val | -vel | |
causal-final | -ért | ||
translative | -vá | -vé | |
terminative | -ig | ||
essive-formal | -ként | ||
essive-modal | -ul | -ül | |
inessive | -ban | -ben | |
superessive | -n | ||
-on | -en | -ön | |
adessive | -nál | -nél | |
illative | -ba | -be | |
sublative | -ra | -re | |
allative | -hoz | -hez | -höz |
elative | -ból | -ből | |
delative | -ról | -ről | |
ablative | -tól | -től | |
Note for all endings: Stem-final -a/-e changes to -á-/-é-, respectively, except -ként. alma — almában, but almaként zene ― zenében, but zeneként |
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Derived termsEdit
Compound words
See alsoEdit
- -nként/-anként/-enként/-onként/-önként (distributive suffix, unrelated to the above -ként)
- Category:Hungarian noun forms
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes