Talk:-nyi

Is this really used to make nouns? It is just a quantity describing adjective in my understanding. "Egy villányit sem evett" is the example given at the villányi entry, but compare "sokat/keveset/jót/nagyot evett", where "sok/.../" clearly isn't a noun. Hungarian can put the accusative to adjectives, that doesn't make than nouns. How is it in your opinion? Qorilla 22:08, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

The source of confusion is that I looked up ujjnyi in the Országh dictionary and its part of speech is marked as a/n (adjective/noun), (négy ujjnyi?). After reading your comment, I looked up tenyérnyi, talpalatnyi, percnyi - they are all marked as only adjective. G. Zaicz also says -nyi creates adjectives. So should we remove the noun section? --Panda10 22:47, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

All Hungarian adjectives are a little bit also nouns. E.g. nagy = big (adj), big thing (noun). I don't think it is worth mentioning in each entry. Qorilla 08:16, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, no noun section - thanks for pointing this out. I really don't think Hungarian adjectives are also nouns, it would be more accurate to say that they can get the same case endings. In the expression big thing, thing is a noun, but big is still an adjective. --Panda10 11:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)