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See also: Appendix:Variations of "kar"
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from either a Serbo-Croatian kvar or Slovene kvar.[1]
Noun
[edit]kár (countable and uncountable, plural károk)
- damage, loss, detriment
- (predicatively) shame, pity, too bad (something regrettable; used with a subordinate clause)
- Milyen kár, hogy nem jöhetsz velünk. ― What a pity that you can't come with us.
- Kár, hogy nem voltam ott! ― Too bad I wasn't there!
- (predicatively) waste, something useless, pointless, or futile, not being worth the bother/trouble (used with -ért or an infinitive)
- Kár erről beszélni. ― It's useless to talk about this.
Declension
[edit]| 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
[edit]Compound words
Etymology 2
[edit]An onomatopoeia.
Interjection
[edit]kár
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- 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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- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/aːr
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- Hungarian terms derived from Slovene
- Hungarian countable and uncountable nouns
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- Hungarian terms with usage examples
- Hungarian nouns taking -ért
- Hungarian onomatopoeias
- Hungarian interjections
- Hungarian three-letter words
- Hungarian terms with multiple lemma etymologies
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