tér
HungarianEdit
tér (Main Square, Szentendre, Hungary)
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Ugric *tärɜ (“(open) space, room”).[1][2]
NounEdit
tér (plural terek)
- (physics, mathematics) space (physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume)
- room (space for something, or to carry out an activity; [also figuratively] sufficient space for or to do something)
- (in compounds) field (open country suitable for a given purpose)
- square (open area in a city, town, or village)
- (physics) field (a physical phenomenon [such as force, potential or fluid velocity] that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity)
- field (the extent of a given perception)
- aspect, respect, field (a particular aspect, feature, or detail of something)
- Synonyms: vonatkozás, szempont, tekintet, terület, aspektus
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | tér | terek |
accusative | teret | tereket |
dative | térnek | tereknek |
instrumental | térrel | terekkel |
causal-final | térért | terekért |
translative | térré | terekké |
terminative | térig | terekig |
essive-formal | térként | terekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | térben | terekben |
superessive | téren | tereken |
adessive | térnél | tereknél |
illative | térbe | terekbe |
sublative | térre | terekre |
allative | térhez | terekhez |
elative | térből | terekből |
delative | térről | terekről |
ablative | tértől | terektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
téré | tereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
téréi | terekéi |
Possessive forms of tér | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | terem | tereim |
2nd person sing. | tered | tereid |
3rd person sing. | tere | terei |
1st person plural | terünk | tereink |
2nd person plural | teretek | tereitek |
3rd person plural | terük | tereik |
Derived termsEdit
Compound words
Expressions
Etymology 2Edit
Of debated origin:
- From a Turkic language.
- Native development.
VerbEdit
tér
- (intransitive, archaic, except in set phrases) to turn
- Synonyms: fordul, kanyarodik
- jobbra tér ― to turn to the right
- más tárgyra tér ― to change the subject
- magához tér ― to regain consciousness, come to
- a lényegre tér ― to get to the point
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of tér
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indica- tive mood |
Pre- sent |
Indef. | térek | térsz | tér | térünk | tértek | térnek |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | tértem | tértél | tért | tértünk | tértetek | tértek | |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Condi- tional mood |
Pre- sent |
Indef. | térnék | térnél | térne | térnénk | térnétek | térnének |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Sub- junc- tive mood |
Pre- sent |
Indef. | térjek | térj or térjél |
térjen | térjünk | térjetek | térjenek |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Infinitive | térni | térnem | térned | térnie | térnünk | térnetek | térniük | |
Other nonfinite verb forms |
Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
térés | térő | tért | ― | térve | térhet |
Derived termsEdit
(With verbal prefixes):
(Compound words):
(Expressions):
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
tér
- (dialectal, intransitive) Synonym of fér (“to fit somewhere”).
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Entry #1860 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
- ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- (space, field, square): tér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
- (to turn): tér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
- ([dialectal] to fit somewhere): tér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.