igen

• igjen (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -ɛn

igen

1. again

Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e / ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g / -ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266.^[1][2]

According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen “evidently, indeed, certainly”, from erken, from *er- (“to be”),^[3] although this etymology is considered less probable.^[2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈiɡɛn]

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• Hyphenation: igen
• Rhymes: -ɛn

igen (not comparable)

1. (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.

• igencsak
• igen-igen

igen

1. yes

   Synonyms: (informal) aha, (colloquial or slang) ja

   Antonym: nem

• igenis
• ez igen

igen (plural igenek)

1. yes

• (very): igen 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.
• (yes): igen 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.

igen

1. Rōmaji transcription of いげん

From Proto-Finnic *igen, as if from *iken. Cognates include Finnish ien and Veps igin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɡen/
• Hyphenation: i‧gen

igen (genitive igenen, partitive igendä)

1. (South Karelian) gum (of the mouth)

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “igen”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *igen.

igen

1. gums

From Old Norse í gegn (“against”), from í (“in, on”) and gegn (“straight, direct”).

igen (not comparable)

1. again
2. 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

• ånyo (archaic or formal)

• Inge, geni