ürge

See also: urge, urgé, and urĝe

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from an Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈyrɡɛ]
• Hyphenation: ür‧ge
• Rhymes: -ɡɛ

Noun

ürge (plural ürgék)

1. suslik, ground squirrel ('Spermophillus citellus', a small burrowing furry rodent)
2. (colloquial) guy, bloke, dude

   Synonyms: férfi, fickó, pasi, pasas, hapsi, manus, manusz, fószer, arc, pofa

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ürge	ürgék
accusative	ürgét	ürgéket
dative	ürgének	ürgéknek
instrumental	ürgével	ürgékkel
causal-final	ürgéért	ürgékért
translative	ürgévé	ürgékké
terminative	ürgéig	ürgékig
essive-formal	ürgeként	ürgékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	ürgében	ürgékben
superessive	ürgén	ürgéken
adessive	ürgénél	ürgéknél
illative	ürgébe	ürgékbe
sublative	ürgére	ürgékre
allative	ürgéhez	ürgékhez
elative	ürgéből	ürgékből
delative	ürgéről	ürgékről
ablative	ürgétől	ürgéktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	ürgéé	ürgéké
non-attributive possessive - plural	ürgééi	ürgékéi

Possessive forms of ürge
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	ürgém	ürgéim
2nd person sing.	ürgéd	ürgéid
3rd person sing.	ürgéje	ürgéi
1st person plural	ürgénk	ürgéink
2nd person plural	ürgétek	ürgéitek
3rd person plural	ürgéjük	ürgéik

Further reading

• ürge 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