napja

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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nap +‎ -ja (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnɒpjɒ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: nap‧ja

Noun

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napja

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of nap
    Coordinate terms: ideje, másodperce, perce, órája, hete, hónapja, éve, évtizede, évszázada, évezrede
    Ma van anyák napja.Today is Mother's Day.

Usage notes

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The above possessive forms of time units often express the time past: with a durative verb (often in the present-tense), an action or event that has (had, will have) been going on for a given time until the given moment, or with an instantaneous verb (in the past tense), an action or event that happened a certain time ago or before. For example:

Fél órája várom a vonatot.I have been waiting for the train for half an hour.
Fél órája vártam a vonatot.I had been waiting for the train for half an hour (or: I waited, I was waiting for the train half an hour ago).
Fél órája (= fél órával ezelőtt) érkeztem meg.I arrived half an hour ago.
Fél órája (= fél órával előtte/​korábban/​azelőtt) érkeztem meg.I (had) arrived half an hour before.

Of course, the usual possessive sense is also possible in different types of sentences:

Fél órája volt még a vizsgáig.He had half an hour left until the exam.

(The equivalent French phrase il y a is also constructed with an apparent possessive, although this Hungarian possessive can also correspond to depuis.) See also the entries of the possessive suffixes: -a/-e/-ja/-je for more examples.

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative napja
accusative napját
dative napjának
instrumental napjával
causal-final napjáért
translative napjává
terminative napjáig
essive-formal napjaként
essive-modal napjául
inessive napjában
superessive napján
adessive napjánál
illative napjába
sublative napjára
allative napjához
elative napjából
delative napjáról
ablative napjától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
napjáé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
napjáéi

Derived terms

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