Hungarian

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Etymology

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From the archaic/obsolete noun reg (morn[ing])-vel (with, instrumental case suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛɡːɛl]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: reg‧gel
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Adverb

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reggel (not comparable)

  1. 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

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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 (januárdecember) and hónap (month), évszak (season), év (year) and specific years, évtized (decade) and longer periods
-n/-on/-en/-ön (on) days of the week (hétfőszombat) 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

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reggel (plural reggelek)

  1. morning

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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
Possessive forms of reggel
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

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  • reggel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN