ő

See also: Appendix:Variations of "o"

Translingual

ő U+0151, ő
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
Composition:o [U+006F] + ̋ [U+030B]
Ő
[U+0150]
Latin Extended-A Œ
[U+0152]

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈøː]
  • (file)

Letter

ő (lower case, upper case Ő)

  1. An o with a double acute accent, a letter of the Hungarian alphabet, representing a long ö.

See also

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *se (he, she, it). Cognates include Southern Mansi tü, tüw-, Northern Mansi тав (tav, he, she), Finnish hän.[1]

Pronoun

ő

  1. (personal) he, she (third-person singular, nominative form)
Declension
Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, ő is optional and only serves for emphasis.

  • őalatta, őáltala, őelőtte etc. (ő + a postposition with the third-person singular personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
  • őneki, ővele, őhozzá etc. (ő + one of the declined forms listed in the chart above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

References

  1. Entry #919 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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