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kerti

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Hungarian

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kerti székben (Woman in a garden chair) by János Vaszary

Etymology

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kert (garden) +‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛrti]
  • Hyphenation: ker‧ti
  • Rhymes: -ti

Adjective

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kerti (not comparable)

  1. garden-
    kerti székgarden chair

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative kerti kertiek
accusative kertit kertieket
dative kertinek kertieknek
instrumental kertivel kertiekkel
causal-final kertiért kertiekért
translative kertivé kertiekké
terminative kertiig kertiekig
essive-formal kertiként kertiekként
essive-modal
inessive kertiben kertiekben
superessive kertin kertieken
adessive kertinél kertieknél
illative kertibe kertiekbe
sublative kertire kertiekre
allative kertihez kertiekhez
elative kertiből kertiekből
delative kertiről kertiekről
ablative kertitől kertiektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular
kertié kertieké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
kertiéi kertiekéi

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • kerti 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.

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse kerti, probably borrowed from Middle Low German kerte, from Latin charta.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kerti n (genitive singular kertis, nominative plural kerti)

  1. candle
  2. (automotive) spark plug
  3. candela (unit of luminous intensity)

Declension

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Declension of kerti (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kerti kertið kerti kertin
accusative kerti kertið kerti kertin
dative kerti kertinu kertum kertunum
genitive kertis kertisins kerta kertanna

Derived terms

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Javanese

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Romanization

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kerti

  1. romanization of ꦏꦼꦂꦠꦶ

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps derived from Middle Low German kartise, kartse (candle, torch). See also Latin cera and Old High German karza (wick).

Noun

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kerti n

  1. wax candle, taper

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjerte

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “kerti”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 238; also available at the Internet Archive