perces

See also: percés

French

Verb

perces

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of percer

Anagrams

• crêpes

Hungarian

Etymology

perc (“minute”) +‎ -es (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛrt͡sɛʃ]
• Hyphenation: per‧ces
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Adjective

perces (not comparable)

1. -minute, minutes (lasting a certain number of minutes)

   tizenöt perces szünet ― a fifteen-minute break

   néhány perces keresgélés ― a few minutes of searching

   a 10 óra 50 perces vonat ― the 10:50 train

Usage notes

Compound adjectives with a numeral and the name of a unit (as in “a one-hour walk” or “a three-storey building”) are written as solid if both constituents are single words, e.g. egyórás séta (“a one-hour walk”), from egy and órás). By contrast, if either element is a compound word (or both of them are), their compound will be written as separate words, e.g. tizenegy órás út (“a trip/flight of eleven hours”)), from tizen+egy + órás or egy hónapos utazás (“a journey of one month”), from egy + hó+napos.^[1] (See also the analogous rule for material designations.) In practice, this rule is sometimes disregarded, especially in casual texts and in case of less common compounds, as people often write them with a space (notwithstanding the single-word elements).

The -van/-ven (“-ty”) in round tens are suffixes, so e.g. negyvennapos (“forty‑day”) is written as solid. On the other hand, compounds with a number are always written separately, e.g. 6 éves. Also, adjectives (and nouns) for the denomination of coins, banknotes, and revenue stamps are written as solid, e.g. kétezerforintos bankjegy (“a 2000‑forint bill”), despite kétezerforintos having the compound numeral két+ezer (“2000”).

Declension

Inflection of perces
	singular	plural
nominative	perces	percesek
accusative	percest perceset	perceseket
dative	percesnek	perceseknek
instrumental	percessel	percesekkel
causal-final	percesért	percesekért
translative	percessé	percesekké
terminative	percesig	percesekig
essive-formal	percesként	percesekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	percesben	percesekben
superessive	percesen	perceseken
adessive	percesnél	perceseknél
illative	percesbe	percesekbe
sublative	percesre	percesekre
allative	perceshez	percesekhez
elative	percesből	percesekből
delative	percesről	percesekről
ablative	percestől	percesektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	percesé	perceseké
non-attributive possessive - plural	perceséi	percesekéi

Further reading

• perces 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