-én

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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-e (possessive suffix, referring to the day of a month) +‎ -n (on, superessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-én

  1. on the specified day of the month (attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers)
    január 21-énon January 21st (literally, “on 21st of January”)
    szeptember negyedikénon September the fourth

Usage notes

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  • Variants:
    -án — in accordance with the vowel harmony of the numerals, with 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th (or these numbers plus 10 or 20), as well as 20th and 30th
    -én — in accordance with the vowel harmony of the numerals, with 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th (or these numbers plus 10 or 20), as well as 11th, 21st, and 31st
    -jén — only after 1st of a month: elsején or 1-jén (the 2015 edition of the spelling regulations also allows -én for the latter[1])

See also

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Old Irish

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Suffix

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-én

  1. Form of -án used after a palatalised consonant.