tucat
Hungarian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Dutzend, from Middle High German tozen via tutzet, dutzet. First attested in 1579.[1][2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittucat (plural tucatok)
- dozen (a set of twelve)
- Synonym: tizenkettő
- A zsemléből vettünk egy tucatot a vendégeknek. ― We bought a dozen of the buns for the guests.
- (colloquial) dozens, many (a large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred)
Declension
edit| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tucat | tucatok |
| accusative | tucatot | tucatokat |
| dative | tucatnak | tucatoknak |
| instrumental | tucattal | tucatokkal |
| causal-final | tucatért | tucatokért |
| translative | tucattá | tucatokká |
| terminative | tucatig | tucatokig |
| essive-formal | tucatként | tucatokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | tucatban | tucatokban |
| superessive | tucaton | tucatokon |
| adessive | tucatnál | tucatoknál |
| illative | tucatba | tucatokba |
| sublative | tucatra | tucatokra |
| allative | tucathoz | tucatokhoz |
| elative | tucatból | tucatokból |
| delative | tucatról | tucatokról |
| ablative | tucattól | tucatoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
tucaté | tucatoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
tucatéi | tucatokéi |
| Possessive forms of tucat | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | tucatom | tucatjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | tucatod | tucatjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | tucatja | tucatjai |
| 1st person plural | tucatunk | tucatjaink |
| 2nd person plural | tucatotok | tucatjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | tucatjuk | tucatjaik |
Derived terms
editCompound words
Expressions
References
edit- ^ tucat in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
- ^ tucat 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- tucat 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