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Hungarians

Hungarians is the plural of Hungarian.

Meaning of Hungarian

Noun

Hungarian (countable and uncountable, plural Hungarians)

  1. (countable) A person from present-day Hungary or of ethnic Hungarian descent.
  2. (countable, dated) A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.
  3. (uncountable) The main language of Hungary.
    • I remember a conversation I had once with a friend who insisted that “nouns are declined but verbs are conjugated”; except in Hungarian you both decline and conjugate nouns, sometimes together.2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022
  4. (informal, uncountable) Hungarian notation.
    • The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian.1993, Steve McConnell, Code Complete

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Questions about Hungarians

What is Hungarians the plural of?
Hungarians is the plural of Hungarian.

Words near Hungarians in the dictionary

  1. Hungarianize
  2. Hungarianized
  3. Hungarianizes
  4. Hungarianizing
  5. Hungarianness
  6. Hungarians
  7. Hungarish
  8. Hungarism
  9. Hungarist
  10. Hungaristics
  11. Hungarists

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