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Hungarian

adjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən//

Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.

  2. 2

    Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.

  3. 3

    Of or relating to Hungarian notation.

    The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”.

Etymology

From Hungary + -an.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from present-day Hungary or of ethnic Hungarian descent.

  2. 2

    datedA person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.

  3. 3

    The main language of Hungary.

    I remember a conversation I had once with a friend who insisted that “nouns are declined but verbs are conjugated”; except in Hungarian you both decline and conjugate nouns, sometimes together.

  4. 4

    informalHungarian notation.

    The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian.

Forms

plural
Hungarians
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).