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virradat

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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virrad +‎ -at (noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvirːɒdɒt]
  • Hyphenation: vir‧ra‧dat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

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virradat (plural virradatok)

  1. (poetic) dawn
    Synonyms: hajnal, pirkadat

Usage notes

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Adverbs of temporal nouns     (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time)
no suffix (the noun
can act as an adverb
)
nappal (daytime), reggel (early morning), délelőtt (late morning), délután (afternoon), este (evening), éjjel / éjszaka (night), and vasárnap (Sunday)
-kor (at) pirkadat / virradat (dawn), napkelte (sunrise), napnyugta (sunset), alkonyat (dusk), szürkület (twilight), éjfél (midnight), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (Easter) etc.)
-ban/-ben (in) dél (noon), hajnal (daybreak), names of months (januárdecember) and hónap (month), évszak (season), év (year) and specific years, évtized (decade) and longer periods
-n/-on/-en/-ön (on) days of the week (hétfőszombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (1st), másodika (2nd) etc.), nap (day), hét (week), nyár (summer), and tél (winter)
-val/-vel (with, assimilated: -szal/-szel) tavasz (spring), ősz (autumn, fall)

Declension

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Possessive forms of virradat
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. virradatom virradataim
2nd person sing. virradatod virradataid
3rd person sing. virradata virradatai
1st person plural virradatunk virradataink
2nd person plural virradatotok virradataitok
3rd person plural virradatuk virradataik

Further reading

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  • virradat 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.