öreg
See also: oreg
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈørɛɡ]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: öreg
- Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Adjective
öreg (comparative öregebb, superlative legöregebb)
- (chiefly of people) old (not young, having existed or lived for a long time; compare régi (“not new”))
- Synonyms: idős, agg, vén, koros, éltes
- Antonyms: fiatal, ifjú
- Az öreg halász és a tenger ― The Old Man and the Sea (a novella by Ernest Hemingway)
- (dialectal, archaic) great, big, grand
- Synonym: nagy
- öreg hiba ― big mistake
- öregujj ― big toe
- öregszülő ― grandparent
- (regional, of food) dense
- Synonym: sűrű
- (folksy, of times of day) late
- Synonym: késő
- öreg este ― late evening
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | öreg | öregek |
| accusative | öreget | öregeket |
| dative | öregnek | öregeknek |
| instrumental | öreggel | öregekkel |
| causal-final | öregért | öregekért |
| translative | öreggé | öregekké |
| terminative | öregig | öregekig |
| essive-formal | öregként | öregekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | öregben | öregekben |
| superessive | öregen | öregeken |
| adessive | öregnél | öregeknél |
| illative | öregbe | öregekbe |
| sublative | öregre | öregekre |
| allative | öreghez | öregekhez |
| elative | öregből | öregekből |
| delative | öregről | öregekről |
| ablative | öregtől | öregektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
öregé | öregeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
öregéi | öregekéi |
Noun
öreg (plural öregek)
- old person
- (colloquial) the leader of a community
- (often with a possessive suffix) (colloquial) one’s parents
- (with a first-person possessive suffix) (colloquial) man, bro (form of address for a person of roughly equal age and status)
- Synonym: öcsém
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | öreg | öregek |
| accusative | öreget | öregeket |
| dative | öregnek | öregeknek |
| instrumental | öreggel | öregekkel |
| causal-final | öregért | öregekért |
| translative | öreggé | öregekké |
| terminative | öregig | öregekig |
| essive-formal | öregként | öregekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | öregben | öregekben |
| superessive | öregen | öregeken |
| adessive | öregnél | öregeknél |
| illative | öregbe | öregekbe |
| sublative | öregre | öregekre |
| allative | öreghez | öregekhez |
| elative | öregből | öregekből |
| delative | öregről | öregekről |
| ablative | öregtől | öregektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
öregé | öregeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
öregéi | öregekéi |
| Possessive forms of öreg | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | öregem | öregeim |
| 2nd person sing. | öreged | öregeid |
| 3rd person sing. | örege | öregei |
| 1st person plural | öregünk | öregeink |
| 2nd person plural | öregetek | öregeitek |
| 3rd person plural | öregük | öregeik |
See also
Further reading
- öreg 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
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