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See also: -igen
Danish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛn
Adverb
[edit]igen
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably a lexicalization of the i- stem variant of the demonstrative pronoun e ~ ez.[1] According to Lars Johansson, borrowing of Turkic particle egen ~ igen ‘evidently, indeed, certainly’ < erken, derived from er- ‘to be’.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]igen (not comparable)
- (literary) quite, very, rather, highly
- Synonym: nagyon
- 1974, Leo Tolstoy (author), László Németh (translator), Anna Karenina [Anna Karenina], Bucharest: Kriterion Könyvkiadó (1989), →ISBN, volume 1, part 1, chapter 1, page 7:
- Az történt vele ebben a pillanatban, ami az emberrel történni szokott, ha váratlanul igen szégyenletes dolgon érik. Arcát nem tudta a helyzethez szabni, amelybe bűne felfedésével a felesége előtt került.
- There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault.
- 1975, Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson, Sorstalanság, Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó (2016), →ISBN, page 25:
- Utolsónak mostohaanyám legidősebb bátyja, Lajos bácsi érkezett. Ő valami igen fontos tisztséget tölt be a családunkban, bár egész pontosan meghatározni nem tudnám, milyet.
- The last person to arrive was my stepmother’s oldest brother, Uncle Lajos. He fulfills some terribly important function in our family, though I’d be hard put to define exactly what that was.
Derived terms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]igen
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]igen (plural igenek)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | igen | igenek |
accusative | igent | igeneket |
dative | igennek | igeneknek |
instrumental | igennel | igenekkel |
causal-final | igenért | igenekért |
translative | igenné | igenekké |
terminative | igenig | igenekig |
essive-formal | igenként | igenekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | igenben | igenekben |
superessive | igenen | igeneken |
adessive | igennél | igeneknél |
illative | igenbe | igenekbe |
sublative | igenre | igenekre |
allative | igenhez | igenekhez |
elative | igenből | igenekből |
delative | igenről | igenekről |
ablative | igentől | igenektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
igené | igeneké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
igenéi | igenekéi |
Possessive forms of igen | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | igenem | igenjeim |
2nd person sing. | igened | igenjeid |
3rd person sing. | igenje | igenjei |
1st person plural | igenünk | igenjeink |
2nd person plural | igenetek | igenjeitek |
3rd person plural | igenjük | igenjeik |
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- (very): igen 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
- (yes): igen 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
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]igen
Karelian
[edit]North Karelian (Viena) |
ijen |
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South Karelian (Tver) |
igen |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *igen, as if from *iken. Cognates include Finnish ien and Veps igin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]igen (genitive igenen, partitive igendä)
- (South Karelian) gum (of the mouth)
Declension
[edit]Tver Karelian declension of igen (type 11/paimen, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | igen | igenet | |
genitive | igenen | igenien | |
partitive | igendä | igenie | |
illative | igeneh | igenih | |
inessive | igeneššä | igenissä | |
elative | igeneštä | igenistä | |
adessive | igenellä | igenillä | |
ablative | igeneldä | igenildä | |
translative | igenekši | igeniksi | |
essive | igenenä | igeninä | |
comitative | igenenke | igeninke | |
abessive | igenettä | igenittä |
Possessive forms of igen | ||
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1st person | igeneni | |
2nd person | igeneš | |
3rd person | igeneh | |
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. |
References
[edit]- A. V. Punzhina (1994) “igen”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
Ludian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *igen.
Noun
[edit]igen
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse í gegn (“against”), from í (“in, on”) and gegn (“straight, direct”).
Adverb
[edit]igen (not comparable)
- again
- to a closed state, up, shut (of for example a door or something getting clogged)
- Han slängde igen dörren
- He slammed the door ("threw shut the door")
- Han sparkade igen dörren
- He kicked the door shut
Synonyms
[edit]- ånyo (archaic or formal)
Anagrams
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