éve

See also: eve, Eve, EVE, Ève, evé, Êve, and Eʋe

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈeːvɛ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: éve
  • Rhymes: -vɛ

Etymology 1

év + -e (possessive suffix)

Noun

éve

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of év
    Coordinate terms: ideje, másodperce, perce, órája, napja, hete, hónapja, évtizede, évszázada, évezrede
Usage notes

The above possessive forms of time units often express the time past: with a durative verb (often in the present-tense), an action or event that has (had, will have) been going on for a given time until the given moment, or with an instantaneous verb (in the past tense), an action or event that happened a certain time ago or before. For example:

Fél órája várom a vonatot.I have been waiting for the train for half an hour.
Fél órája vártam a vonatot.I had been waiting for the train for half an hour (or: I waited, I was waiting for the train half an hour ago).
Fél órája (= fél órával ezelőtt) érkeztem meg.I arrived half an hour ago.
Fél órája (= fél órával előtte/​korábban/​azelőtt) érkeztem meg.I (had) arrived half an hour before.

Of course, the usual possessive sense is also possible in different types of sentences:

Fél órája volt még a vizsgáig.He had half an hour left until the exam.

(The equivalent French phrase il y a is also constructed with an apparent possessive, although this Hungarian possessive can also correspond to depuis.) See also the entries of the possessive suffixes: -a/-e/-ja/-je for more examples.

Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative éve
accusative évét
dative évének
instrumental évével
causal-final évéért
translative évévé
terminative évéig
essive-formal éveként
essive-modal évéül
inessive évében
superessive évén
adessive événél
illative évébe
sublative évére
allative évéhez
elative évéből
delative évéről
ablative évétől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
évéé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
évééi

Etymology 2

From the lengthened e- stem of eszik + -ve (adverbial-participle suffix).

Alternative forms

  • evén, évén, edve (the latter is dialectal)[1]

Participle

éve

  1. (rare) adverbial participle of eszik
Usage notes

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

  • éve (…) meg, meg … évemegévemegeszik

References

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