Hungarian

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Etymology

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From the Bavarian trächt variant of Tracht, from tragen (to carry), inserting a vowel after t to ease pronunciation and omitting the final -t as a perceived accusative suffix, resulting in tereht, then tereh, and eventually teher in the nominative and several oblique forms by means of metathesis; compare kehely, pehely, boholy, moholy, and (archaic) vehem, the only words with this feature in Hungarian. See also tragacs and trágár for terms related to tragen.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛhɛr]
  • Hyphenation: te‧her
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

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teher (plural terhek)

  1. burden, weight, load, freight, cargo
    Synonyms: súly, málha, szállítmány, rakomány
  2. (figuratively) burden, load, onus, nuisance
    Synonyms: kényelmetlenség, kellemetlenség, nehézség, gond
  3. (in set phrases formed with teherbe or teherben) pregnancy
    Synonym: terhesség
  4. (finance, often in set phrases with terhére) debit
  5. (law) encumbrance, encumberment (an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage)
    Synonyms: megterhelés, jelzálog
  6. (with a possessive suffix) construed with mellett or alatt: penalty, punishment (cf. on pain of, under pain of)
    Synonyms: büntetés, szankció

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative teher terhek
accusative terhet terheket
dative tehernek terheknek
instrumental teherrel terhekkel
causal-final teherért terhekért
translative teherré terhekké
terminative teherig terhekig
essive-formal teherként terhekként
essive-modal
inessive teherben terhekben
superessive terhen terheken
adessive tehernél terheknél
illative teherbe terhekbe
sublative teherre terhekre
allative teherhez terhekhez
elative teherből terhekből
delative teherről terhekről
ablative tehertől terhektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
teheré terheké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
teheréi terhekéi
Possessive forms of teher
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. terhem terheim
2nd person sing. terhed terheid
3rd person sing. terhe terhei
1st person plural terhünk terheink
2nd person plural terhetek terheitek
3rd person plural terhük terheik

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Further reading

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  • teher 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