Re: Antigenetive case?

tim talpas  <tim@...> 2002.08.10. 17:48:37 -7h-kor írta:

> # Dative? Not Genetive? that's odd.  I'd like to learn hungarian sometime, I
> # think :-)
> #
>
> Some grammar books will refer to the -nak/-nek suffix as genitive/dative
> or even just genitive, but i think it is rarely used as such. It is
> mainly used as the indirect object marker (correct me if i'm wrong, mau)
> as in:
Well, it's surely not *just* genitive. You're right.

> adtam a viragakot a baratomnak
> i gave the flowers to my friend
viragakot is actually virágokat (virág+k+t but because of the vowel harmony and the
attaching vowels, it becames virágokat :)

We rarely use it as genitive because we can shorten it to the nominative form.
There's always the gen. ending -nak/nek but it's often unsigned.
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