sereg
See also: šereg
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Turkic language, compare Old Turkic [script needed] (çerig, “soldier, soldiery, army”). Cf. also ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ (ǰerge).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sereg (plural seregek)
- (military) army
- Synonym: hadsereg
- flock, crowd, multitude (a large number of people)
- flock (e.g. of birds or locusts)
- heap, pile, lot (great number of things)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sereg | seregek |
| accusative | sereget | seregeket |
| dative | seregnek | seregeknek |
| instrumental | sereggel | seregekkel |
| causal-final | seregért | seregekért |
| translative | sereggé | seregekké |
| terminative | seregig | seregekig |
| essive-formal | seregként | seregekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | seregben | seregekben |
| superessive | seregen | seregeken |
| adessive | seregnél | seregeknél |
| illative | seregbe | seregekbe |
| sublative | seregre | seregekre |
| allative | sereghez | seregekhez |
| elative | seregből | seregekből |
| delative | seregről | seregekről |
| ablative | seregtől | seregektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
seregé | seregeké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
seregéi | seregekéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | seregem | seregeim |
| 2nd person sing. | sereged | seregeid |
| 3rd person sing. | serege | seregei |
| 1st person plural | seregünk | seregeink |
| 2nd person plural | seregetek | seregeitek |
| 3rd person plural | seregük | seregeik |
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (collective terms for animals) csapat and sereg (generic), csorda, csürhe, falka, gulya, horda, konda, ménes, nyáj, raj
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sereg 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.