ideje

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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idő +‎ -je (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈidɛjɛ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ide‧je

Noun

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ideje

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of idő
    Coordinate terms: másodperce, perce, órája, napja, hete, hónapja, éve, évtizede, évszázada, évezrede
    Ideje hazamenni.It’s time to go home.
    Van ideje?Do you have time? (formal)

Usage notes

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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

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ideje
accusative idejét
dative idejének
instrumental idejével
causal-final idejéért
translative idejévé
terminative idejéig
essive-formal idejeként
essive-modal idejéül
inessive idejében
superessive idején
adessive idejénél
illative idejébe
sublative idejére
allative idejéhez
elative idejéből
delative idejéről
ablative idejétől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
idejéé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
idejééi

Derived terms

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