Tartalomjegyzék

Ketten, hárman...

Note the plural verb forms above. The singular cannot be used:

Some more examples:

The following are also possible, but less common when referring to people:

As you might have guessed, numerals with the suffix -an/-en refer to people.

Ketten, hárman, négyen refer to two, three, four people, whereas kettő, három, négy… can refer to anything, and usually do not refer to people.

Some more examples follow.

Mindketten, mindhárman...

Again, note the plural verb forms.The singular cannot be used.

The following forms do not exist. (Starting from four, a definite article is added after mind, see the next section).

The following are also possible, but sound contemptuous when used for people (exactly because they do not normally refer to people):

Note that the singular verb form is used here, as usual.

The following, however, are not possible, because tudjukwe know can only refer to people:

Mind a ketten, mind a hárman...

Note that both mindketten and mind a ketten are possible forms as well as mindhárman and mind a hárman. Starting from four, however, a definite article is always added after mind.

Hányan/mennyien, annyian, amennyien/ahányan, sokan, kevesen, elegen

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