mellkas

Hungarian

Etymology

mell (“chest”) +‎ kas (“cage”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlkɒʃ]
• Hyphenation: mell‧kas
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Noun

mellkas (plural mellkasok)

1. (anatomy) chest, thorax

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mellkas	mellkasok
accusative	mellkast	mellkasokat
dative	mellkasnak	mellkasoknak
instrumental	mellkassal	mellkasokkal
causal-final	mellkasért	mellkasokért
translative	mellkassá	mellkasokká
terminative	mellkasig	mellkasokig
essive-formal	mellkasként	mellkasokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mellkasban	mellkasokban
superessive	mellkason	mellkasokon
adessive	mellkasnál	mellkasoknál
illative	mellkasba	mellkasokba
sublative	mellkasra	mellkasokra
allative	mellkashoz	mellkasokhoz
elative	mellkasból	mellkasokból
delative	mellkasról	mellkasokról
ablative	mellkastól	mellkasoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	mellkasé	mellkasoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	mellkaséi	mellkasokéi

Possessive forms of mellkas
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mellkasom	mellkasaim
2nd person sing.	mellkasod	mellkasaid
3rd person sing.	mellkasa	mellkasai
1st person plural	mellkasunk	mellkasaink
2nd person plural	mellkasotok	mellkasaitok
3rd person plural	mellkasuk	mellkasaik

Derived terms

• mellkasi
• mellkasú

 

Further reading

• mellkas 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