kár

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See also: Kar, kar, Kár, kâr, kär, Kär, kår, kar., and kār-

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkaːr]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

Borrowed from either a Serbo-Croatian kvar or Slovene kvar.[1]

Noun

kár (plural károk)

  1. damage, loss, detriment
  2. (predicatively) shame, pity (something regrettable; used with a subordinate clause)
  3. (predicatively) waste, something useless, pointless, or futile, not being worth the bother/trouble (used with -ért or an infinitive)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kár károk
accusative kárt károkat
dative kárnak károknak
instrumental kárral károkkal
causal-final kárért károkért
translative kárrá károkká
terminative kárig károkig
essive-formal kárként károkként
essive-modal
inessive kárban károkban
superessive káron károkon
adessive kárnál károknál
illative kárba károkba
sublative kárra károkra
allative kárhoz károkhoz
elative kárból károkból
delative kárról károkról
ablative kártól károktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
káré károké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
káréi károkéi
Possessive forms of kár
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. károm káraim
2nd person sing. károd káraid
3rd person sing. kára kárai
1st person plural kárunk káraink
2nd person plural károtok káraitok
3rd person plural káruk káraik
Derived terms
Compound words

Etymology 2

An onomatopoeia.

Interjection

kár

  1. caw (cry of a crow or raven)

References

  1. ^ kár in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • kár 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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