pillanat

Hungarian

From obsolete pillanik (“to open and close with a sudden movement <of an eyelid>”) +‎ -at (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. ^[1] Compare English blink of an eye or Polish w mgnieniu oka.

pillanat (plural pillanatok)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pillanat	pillanatok
accusative	pillanatot	pillanatokat
dative	pillanatnak	pillanatoknak
instrumental	pillanattal	pillanatokkal
causal-final	pillanatért	pillanatokért
translative	pillanattá	pillanatokká
terminative	pillanatig	pillanatokig
essive-formal	pillanatként	pillanatokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pillanatban	pillanatokban
superessive	pillanaton	pillanatokon
adessive	pillanatnál	pillanatoknál
illative	pillanatba	pillanatokba
sublative	pillanatra	pillanatokra
allative	pillanathoz	pillanatokhoz
elative	pillanatból	pillanatokból
delative	pillanatról	pillanatokról
ablative	pillanattól	pillanatoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pillanaté	pillanatoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pillanatéi	pillanatokéi

Possessive forms of pillanat
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pillanatom	pillanataim
2nd person sing.	pillanatod	pillanataid
3rd person sing.	pillanata	pillanatai
1st person plural	pillanatunk	pillanataink
2nd person plural	pillanatotok	pillanataitok
3rd person plural	pillanatuk	pillanataik

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^ pillanat in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)