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kórház

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From kór (“sickness, disease”) +‎ ház (“house”), calque of German Krankenhaus. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkoːrɦaːz], [ˈkorɦaːz][2]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːz
  • Hyphenation: kór‧ház

Noun

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kórház (plural kórházak)

  1. hospital
    Synonym: (archaic) ispotály

Declension

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Possessive forms of kórház
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kórházam kórházaim
2nd person sing. kórházad kórházaid
3rd person sing. kórháza kórházai
1st person plural kórházunk kórházaink
2nd person plural kórházatok kórházaitok
3rd person plural kórházuk kórházaik

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Eőry, Vilma (2007), Értelmező szótár+ [Explanatory Dictionary Plus]‎[1] (in Hungarian), Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, →ISBN
  2. ^ Why Does Language Change?, a lecture at University of All Knowledge by Ádám Nádasdy, highlighting the background of this pronunciation variation between 20:20 and 31:20

Further reading

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  • kórház in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.