kicsi
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkit͡ʃi]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ki‧csi
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | kicsi | kicsik |
| accusative | kicsit | kicsiket |
| dative | kicsinek | kicsiknek |
| instrumental | kicsivel | kicsikkel |
| causal-final | kicsiért | kicsikért |
| translative | kicsivé | kicsikké |
| terminative | kicsiig | kicsikig |
| essive-formal | kicsiként | kicsikként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | kicsiben | kicsikben |
| superessive | kicsin | kicsiken |
| adessive | kicsinél | kicsiknél |
| illative | kicsibe | kicsikbe |
| sublative | kicsire | kicsikre |
| allative | kicsihez | kicsikhez |
| elative | kicsiből | kicsikből |
| delative | kicsiről | kicsikről |
| ablative | kicsitől | kicsiktől |
Usage notes
Kicsi is normally used on its own (in the predicate, or a short reference to a noun phrase with this quality). It can also be used in an emphatic way before nouns, but the neutral variant kis is more usual for the latter purpose. (Note that the same syntactic difference exists between kettő and két in Hungarian, both of which mean 'two'.) Their distribution is comparable to that of "sick" and "ill" in English: "they are ill" (cf. kettő, kicsi, when used on their own) vs. "sick people" (cf. két, kis, i.e. used before a noun).
Antonyms
References
- 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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