húsz(“twenty”) +-as(adjective-forming suffix)
- IPA(key): [ˈhusɒʃ] (phonetic respelling: huszas)
- Hyphenation:hú‧szas
- Rhymes:-ɒʃ
húszas (notcomparable)
- thenumbertwenty
- ahúszas szoba ―roomnumber twenty
- twentyfold(consisting of twenty parts)
- in one’stwenties(of age)
- of the twenties, especially
- Ellipsis of2020-as.
- Ellipsis of1920-as.
The followingnominal numerals (adjectives or nouns), coined from numerals (with the suffix-s/-os/-as/-es/-ös in Hungarian), refer to items designated with a specific number, such asNo. 1, No. 2 etc. (as opposed to 1st, 2nd etc.). Question word:hányas? Examples:
- (single digits) pronounced names or symbols of numbers:nullás(0-s),egyes(1-es),kettes(2-es),hármas(3-as),négyes(4-es),ötös(5-ös),hatos(6-os),hetes(7-es),nyolcas(8-as),kilences(9-es)
- (usually 1–300, 900–999) public transport lines (e.g.négyes-hatos)
- numbered seats, rooms, cubicles, or other compartments
- motorways, highways, e.g.hatvanhatosút(“Route 66”)
- school grades:egyes(“F”),kettes(“D”),hármas(“C”),négyes(“B”),ötös(“A”)
- (multiples of 1, 2, 5) coins:ötös,tízes,húszas―colloquially also for thousand bills―,ötvenes,százas,kétszázas; bills:ötszázas,ezres,kétezres,ötezres,tízezres,húszezres
- (tens) decades in a century, e.g.1970-es,1980-as,1990-es,2000-es,2010-es,2020-as (…évek ’years’)
- (tens) decades of a person’s age:tízes(10-es),húszas(20-as),harmincas(30-as),negyvenes(40-es),ötvenes(50-es),hatvanas(60-as),hetvenes(70-es),nyolcvanas(80-as),kilencvenes(90-es)
- packages or sets with a given number of items
- (small numbers, up to 4 or 5) groups of people
- (round numbers) orders of magnitude:tízes,százas,ezres,tízezres,százezres,milliós,milliárdos,billiós, etc.
- numerical systems:kettes,tízes,tizenhatos(16-os), etc.
- (between 0 and 59) trains, coaches, and flights departing or arriving at some time, attached to the number of minutes
- people or groups identified by symbolic dates and other numerals:huszonnyolcas,harminckettes,negyvennyolcas,ötvenhatos,hatvannyolcas,nyolcvankilences
húszas (pluralhúszasok)
- (informal) a coin or banknote of 20 units
- (specifically)Synonym ofhúszforintos (érme)(“a twenty-forint coin”)
- (specifically, in slang)Synonym ofhúszezres (bankjegy)(“a twenty-thousand-forint bill”)
- húszas in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
