See also: něje

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse hneigja.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

neje (imperative nej, infinitive at neje, present tense nejer, past tense nejede, perfect tense har nejet)

  1. curtsey (to make a curtsey)

Further reading edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Lexicalization of an earlier nej-, neɣ- stem of (woman; [archaic] wife) +‎ -e (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈnɛjɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ne‧je

Noun edit

neje

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of , one’s wife (already incorporating the possessive suffix)
    Synonym: feleség

Usage notes edit

  • For the possessive of in the sense “woman; female partner or lover, mistress”, see nője.
  • If the incorporated possessive suffix is not required, feleség may be used instead. The term in the sense “wife” is archaic, while the form nej may be disputed. (For a similar case, see vej.)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative neje
accusative nejét
dative nejének
instrumental nejével
causal-final nejéért
translative nejévé
terminative nejéig
essive-formal nejeként
essive-modal nejéül
inessive nejében
superessive nején
adessive nejénél
illative nejébe
sublative nejére
allative nejéhez
elative nejéből
delative nejéről
ablative nejétől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
nejéé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
nejééi

For the plural form (“someone’s wives”), see nejei.

Further reading edit

  • neje 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
  • The second sense of (2): 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