kér

See also: ker, Ker, kêr, kër, keř, kær, ķer, ker., and ker-

Breton

Adjective

kér

  1. dear

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä- (to request). Cognates include Finnish kerjätä (to beg), Komi-Permyak корны (korny, to beg), Udmurt курыны (kuryny) and Northern Sami gearjidit (to beg).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkeːr]
  • (file)

Verb

kér

  1. (transitive) to ask, to make a request (the person asked can get -tól/-től and the favor can get -t/-at/-ot/-et/-öt, or the person can get -t/-at/-ot/-et/-öt and the favor can get -ra/-re)
    Azt kértem Jánostól, (hogy) menjen vásárolni. or Arra kértem Jánost, (hogy) menjen vásárolni.I asked John to do the shopping.

Conjugation

Derived terms

With verbal prefixes

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See also

References

  1. Entry #287 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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