Meaning of -en | Babel Free

Definitions

1. on the specified day of the month (attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers)
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2. on
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3. -ly. Added to an adjective to create an adverb.
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4. Added to a stem — often an onomatopoeia — to form a verb expressing an instantaneous action.
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5. Forms the indefinite third-person singular suffix (currently only in the imperative mood as part of -jen, formerly also occurring in the indicative).
   archaic, dialectal, morpheme, personal, suffix
6. In Hungarian, this adverb form is used for certain complements that are adjectives in English.
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7. Added to a numeral or a pronoun with this sense to create an adverb, expressing the number of people.
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Equivalents

Examples

“szék (“chair”) + -en → széken (“on [a/the] chair”)”

“Az asztal mellett ültem egy széken.”

I sat on a chair next to the table.

“A széken könyvek hevertek.”

There were books on the chair.

“szép (“beautiful”) + -en → szépen (“beautifully”)”

“könnyű (“light, easy”) + -en → könnyen (“easily”)”

“bő (“ample”) + -en → bőven (“amply”)”

“hű (“faithful”) + -en → híven (“faithfully”), aside from the regular hűen”

“Nyersen eszi a répát.”

S/he eats carrots raw.

“kettő (“two”) + -en → ketten (“two people, two of us/you/them”)”

“Ketten vannak a szobában.”

There are two people in the room.

“öt (“five”) + -en → öten (“five people, five of us/you/them”)”

“hét (“seven”) + -en → heten (“seven people, seven of us/you/them”)”

“Heten mentünk moziba.”

Seven of us went to the cinema.

“kevés (“few”) + -en → kevesen (“few people, few of us/you/them”)”

“Sokan vannak a meghívottak, de kevesen a választottak.”

For many are called, but few are chosen.

“ezer (“thousand”) + -en → ezren (“a thousand people, a thousand of us/you/them”)”

“reccsen (“to crackle, to make one cracking sound”)”

“retten (“to be frightened, to recoil, to flinch, to shy away from”)”

“nincsen (“he/she/it isn't, there is none of it”)”

“van/lenni (“to be”) → legyen (“he/she/it should be, there should be”)”

“kér (“to ask/request”) + -en → kérjen (“he/she/it should ask for some[thing]”)”

“megy (“to go”) + -en → megyen (“he/she/it goes, is going”) (in the standard language: megy)”

“vesz (“to take/grab”) + -en → veszen (“he/she/it takes/grabs”) (in the standard language: vesz)”

“visz (“to take/carry”) + -en → viszen (“he/she/it takes/carries”) (in the standard language: visz)”

“január 21-én”

on January 21st

“szeptember negyedikén”

on September the fourth

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