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Features

Lexical features
PronType
NumType
Poss
Reflex
Inflectional features
Nominal Verbal
Gender VerbForm
Animacy Mood
Number Tense
Case Aspect
Definite Voice
Degree Person
Negative

Animacy: animacy

This feature is not relevant in Hungarian.

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Aspect: aspect

Two values of Aspect are used in Hungarian, both of which denote productive derivational processes:

Freq (frequentative): üt - ütöget (hit - hit several times)

Mod (modal): üt - üthet (hit - (he) may hit)

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Case: case

Case is used for nominal parts-of-speech (nouns, proper nouns, numerals, adjectives and pronouns).

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Definite: definiteness or state

Definiteness is relevant for determiners and verbs in Hungarian. Besides the values Def and Indef, we apply the value 2 for marking second person objects, which trigger special inflectional suffixes on the verb:

Szeret egy fiút. love-PRES-3SG-INDEF a boy-ACC “She loves a boy.”

Szereti a fiút. love-PRES-3SG-DEF the boy-ACC “She loves the boy.”

Szeretlek. love-PRES-1SG-2SGOBJ “I love you.”

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Degree: degree of comparison

Degree is relevant for adjectives and some adverbs in Hungarian.

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Gender: gender

This feature is not relevant in Hungarian.

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Mood: mood

We apply the features Ind, Cnd and Imp in Hungarian.

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Negative: whether the word can be or is negated

This feature is not used in Hungarian.

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NumType: numeral type

NumType is relevant for numerals and adjectives (denoting quantities).

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Number: number

Number is relevant for nouns, proper nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, auxiliaries and verbs. Relevant values are Sing and Plur. We also apply the features Number[psor] and Number[psed] to denote the number of the possessor and the possessed on nominal elements.

háza house-3SGPOSS “his house” Number[psor]=Sing Person[psor]=3 Number[psed]=None
házuk house-3PLPOSS “their house” Number[psor]=Plur Person[psor]=3 Number[psed]=None
házáé house-3SGPOSS-SGPSED “that of his house” Number[psor]=Sing Person[psor]=3 Number[psed]=Sing
házáéi house-3SGPOSS-PLPSED “those of his house” Number[psor]=Sing Person[psor]=3 Number[psed]=Plur

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Number[psed]: Number[psed]

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for Number[psed].

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Number[psor]: Number[psor]

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for Number[psor].

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Person: person

Person is relevant for determiners, pronouns, auxiliaries and verbs. We also apply the feature Person[psor] to denote the person of the possessor on nominal elements.

háza house-3SGPOSS “his house” Number[psor]=Sing Person[psor]=3 Number[psed]=None
házam house-1SGPOSS “my house” Number[psor]=Sing Person[psor]=1 Number[psed]=None

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Person[psor]: Person[psor]

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for Person[psor].

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Poss: possessive

Poss is not applied in Hungarian.

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PronType: pronominal type

PronType is relevant for ADVs, DETs and PRONs in Hungarian. For adverbs, we apply two specific values:

Default denotes “general” adverbs without any specifications.

AdvPart denotes adverbial participles (futva - running).

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Reflex: reflexive

This feature is relevant for pronouns in Hungarian.

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Tense: tense

This feature is used for verbs and auxiliaries, with the values Past and Pres.

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VerbForm: form of verb or deverbative

For verbs and auxiliaries, VerbForm denotes finite and infinitival forms of verbs. For adjectives, verbForm may denote whether it is a participle:

Part:Pres (present participle) - futó “running”

Part:Past (past participle) - főtt “cooked”

Part:Fut (future participle) - eljövendő “to come”

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Voice: voice

We use Voice for verbs and auxiliaries with two values, Act and Cau.

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