See also: mérsz

Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

mer +‎ -sz (personal suffix)

Verb edit

mersz

  1. second-person singular indicative present indefinite of mer

Etymology 2 edit

Lexicalization of the above.

Noun edit

mersz (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly in possessive constructions) Synonym of bátorság (courage).
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mersz
accusative merszet
dative mersznek
instrumental mersszel
causal-final merszért
translative mersszé
terminative merszig
essive-formal merszként
essive-modal
inessive merszben
superessive merszen
adessive mersznél
illative merszbe
sublative merszre
allative merszhez
elative merszből
delative merszről
ablative mersztől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
merszé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
merszéi
Possessive forms of mersz
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. merszem
2nd person sing. merszed
3rd person sing. mersze
1st person plural merszünk
2nd person plural merszetek
3rd person plural merszük

See also edit

  • félsz (fear, literally you fear) (affected by a similar conversion)

Further reading edit

  • mersz 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