reggel
Hungarian
Etymology
From the archaic/obsolete noun reg (“morn[ing]”) + -vel (“with”, instrumental case suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɛɡːɛl]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: reg‧gel
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Adverb
reggel (not comparable)
- in the morning (approx. between 6 and 9 a.m., depending on wakeup time, working time, start of daylight etc.)
- Coordinate term: (in the late morning) délelőtt
Usage notes
| Adverbs of temporal nouns (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time) | |
|---|---|
| no suffix (the noun can act as an adverb) |
nappal (“daytime”), reggel (“early morning”), délelőtt (“late morning”), délután (“afternoon”), este (“evening”), éjjel / éjszaka (“night”), and vasárnap (“Sunday”) |
| -kor (“at”) | pirkadat / virradat (“dawn”), napkelte (“sunrise”), napnyugta (“sunset”), alkonyat (“dusk”), szürkület (“twilight”), éjfél (“midnight”), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (“Easter”) etc.) |
| -ban/-ben (“in”) | dél (“noon”), hajnal (“daybreak”), names of months (január–december) and hónap (“month”), évszak (“season”), év (“year”) and specific years, évtized (“decade”) and longer periods |
| -n/-on/-en/-ön (“on”) | days of the week (hétfő–szombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (“1st”), másodika (“2nd”) etc.), nap (“day”), hét (“week”), nyár (“summer”), and tél (“winter”) |
| -val/-vel (“with”, assimilated: -szal/-szel) | tavasz (“spring”), ősz (“autumn, fall”) |
Noun
reggel (plural reggelek)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | reggel | reggelek |
| accusative | reggelt | reggeleket |
| dative | reggelnek | reggeleknek |
| instrumental | reggellel | reggelekkel |
| causal-final | reggelért | reggelekért |
| translative | reggellé | reggelekké |
| terminative | reggelig | reggelekig |
| essive-formal | reggelként | reggelekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | reggelben | reggelekben |
| superessive | reggelen | reggeleken |
| adessive | reggelnél | reggeleknél |
| illative | reggelbe | reggelekbe |
| sublative | reggelre | reggelekre |
| allative | reggelhez | reggelekhez |
| elative | reggelből | reggelekből |
| delative | reggelről | reggelekről |
| ablative | reggeltől | reggelektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
reggelé | reggeleké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
reggeléi | reggelekéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | reggelem | reggeleim |
| 2nd person sing. | reggeled | reggeleid |
| 3rd person sing. | reggele | reggelei |
| 1st person plural | reggelünk | reggeleink |
| 2nd person plural | reggeletek | reggeleitek |
| 3rd person plural | reggelük | reggeleik |
Derived terms
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Further reading
- reggel 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.