hetes
Hungarian
Etymology
From the number hét (“seven”) + -es
Pronunciation
Adjective
hetes (not comparable)
- sevenfold, seven-piece (consisting of seven parts)
- the number seven
- a hetes szoba ― room number seven
- (as an affix after a numeral) … week(s) old (written as one word if the numeral consists of only one element)
- háromhetes baba ― a three weeks old baby
Usage notes
The following nominal numerals (adjectives or nouns), coined from numerals (with the suffix -s/-os/-as/-es/-ös in Hungarian), refer to items designated with a specific number, such as No. 1, No. 2 etc. (as opposed to 1st, 2nd etc.). Question word: hányas? Examples:
- (single digits) pronounced names or symbols of numbers: nullás (0-s), egyes (1-es), kettes (2-es), hármas (3-as), négyes (4-es), ötös (5-ös), hatos (6-os), hetes (7-es), nyolcas (8-as), kilences (9-es)
- (usually 1–300, 900–999) public transport lines (e.g. négyes-hatos)
- numbered seats, rooms, cubicles, or other compartments
- motorways, highways, e.g. hatvanhatos út (“Route 66”)
- school grades: egyes (“F”), kettes (“D”), hármas (“C”), négyes (“B”), ötös (“A”)
- (multiples of 1, 2, 5) coins: ötös, tízes, húszas―colloquially also for thousand bills―, ötvenes, százas, kétszázas; bills: ötszázas, ezres, kétezres, ötezres, tízezres, húszezres
- (tens) decades in a century, e.g. 1970-es, 1980-as, 1990-es, 2000-es, 2010-es, 2020-as (… évek ’years’)
- (tens) decades of a person’s age: tízes (10-es), húszas (20-as), harmincas (30-as), negyvenes (40-es), ötvenes (50-es), hatvanas (60-as), hetvenes (70-es), nyolcvanas (80-as), kilencvenes (90-es)
- packages or sets with a given number of items
- (small numbers, up to 4 or 5) groups of people
- (round numbers) orders of magnitude: tízes, százas, ezres, tízezres, százezres, milliós, milliárdos, billiós, etc.
- numerical systems: kettes, tízes, tizenhatos (16-os), etc.
- (between 0 and 59) trains, coaches, and flights departing or arriving at some time, attached to the number of minutes
- people or groups identified by symbolic dates and other numerals: huszonnyolcas, harminckettes, negyvennyolcas, ötvenhatos, hatvannyolcas, nyolcvankilences
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | hetes | hetesek |
accusative | heteset | heteseket |
dative | hetesnek | heteseknek |
instrumental | hetessel | hetesekkel |
causal-final | hetesért | hetesekért |
translative | hetessé | hetesekké |
terminative | hetesig | hetesekig |
essive-formal | hetesként | hetesekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | hetesben | hetesekben |
superessive | hetesen | heteseken |
adessive | hetesnél | heteseknél |
illative | hetesbe | hetesekbe |
sublative | hetesre | hetesekre |
allative | heteshez | hetesekhez |
elative | hetesből | hetesekből |
delative | hetesről | hetesekről |
ablative | hetestől | hetesektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
hetesé | heteseké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
heteséi | hetesekéi |
Noun
hetes (plural hetesek)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | hetes | hetesek |
accusative | hetest | heteseket |
dative | hetesnek | heteseknek |
instrumental | hetessel | hetesekkel |
causal-final | hetesért | hetesekért |
translative | hetessé | hetesekké |
terminative | hetesig | hetesekig |
essive-formal | hetesként | hetesekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | hetesben | hetesekben |
superessive | hetesen | heteseken |
adessive | hetesnél | heteseknél |
illative | hetesbe | hetesekbe |
sublative | hetesre | hetesekre |
allative | heteshez | hetesekhez |
elative | hetesből | hetesekből |
delative | hetesről | hetesekről |
ablative | hetestől | hetesektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
hetesé | heteseké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
heteséi | hetesekéi |
Possessive forms of hetes | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | hetesem | heteseim |
2nd person sing. | hetesed | heteseid |
3rd person sing. | hetese | hetesei |
1st person plural | hetesünk | heteseink |
2nd person plural | hetesetek | heteseitek |
3rd person plural | hetesük | heteseik |