17 in Hungarian
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17 in Other Languages
About 17 in Hungarian
The number 17 in Hungarian is tizenhét. The ordinal form — used for rankings, dates, and sequences — is tizenhetedik.
17 is an odd number and a prime number. 17 comes up regularly in Hungarian conversations — in stores, when giving your phone number, reading addresses, or discussing dates and ages.
Knowing 17 in Hungarian is more useful than it might seem. Numbers are woven into nearly every type of conversation, and fluency with them makes everything from shopping to socializing dramatically easier.
Learning Numbers in Hungarian
What makes Hungarian numbers challenging
Hungarian is unrelated to any of its neighboring languages, making its number words completely unfamiliar to speakers of Germanic, Romance, or Slavic languages. The vowel harmony system means suffixes change their vowels to match the word they attach to. Special people-counting forms (négyen, öten, hatan) are used when saying how many people are in a group. While the decimal system is logical, the agglutinative word formation means numbers can have many suffixed forms.
Tips for learning Hungarian numbers
Hungarian numbers are refreshingly regular once you learn the base digits and tens — focus on these first. The agglutinative patterns are consistent, so learning the system of suffixes pays off across all numbers. Practice with prices at Hungarian markets and restaurants. The people-counting forms (hárman = 'three of us') are commonly heard in everyday conversation. Hungarian pronunciation is consistent — what you see is what you say.