dolog
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Slavic language, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian. Compare Serbo-Croatian dug (“debt”), Slovak dlh (“debt”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdoloɡ]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: do‧log
- Rhymes: -oɡ
Noun
dolog (plural dolgok)
- thing, object
- affair, business, matter
- task, work, job, duty, responsibility
- fate, (good or bad) time
- a matter or question of (something) (used with abstract concepts like honour or taste)
- Synonym: kérdés
Usage notes
Except for meanings (1) and (2), it is usually used with possessive endings: dolgom, dolgod, dolga etc. (see the chart below).
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dolog | dolgok |
| accusative | dolgot | dolgokat |
| dative | dolognak | dolgoknak |
| instrumental | dologgal | dolgokkal |
| causal-final | dologért | dolgokért |
| translative | dologgá | dolgokká |
| terminative | dologig | dolgokig |
| essive-formal | dologként | dolgokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | dologban | dolgokban |
| superessive | dolgon | dolgokon |
| adessive | dolognál | dolgoknál |
| illative | dologba | dolgokba |
| sublative | dologra | dolgokra |
| allative | dologhoz | dolgokhoz |
| elative | dologból | dolgokból |
| delative | dologról | dolgokról |
| ablative | dologtól | dolgoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
dologé | dolgoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
dologéi | dolgokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | dolgom | dolgaim |
| 2nd person sing. | dolgod | dolgaid |
| 3rd person sing. | dolga | dolgai |
| 1st person plural | dolgunk | dolgaink |
| 2nd person plural | dolgotok | dolgaitok |
| 3rd person plural | dolguk | dolgaik |
Derived terms
Compound words
- dologkerülő
Expressions
References
- ^ dolog 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
- dolog in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
- dolog in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Simalungun Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Batak *dələg.
Noun
dolog
References
- Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p.48.