German affixes in Hungarian

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Majtényi (2012) who conducted a corpus study demonstrating the productivity of this prefix with both nouns and adjectives. The same prefix has been borrowed into English. Both cases are included here since they appear to be independed borrowing events.

1 derivational prefix

  • über- ‘intensifier’, e.g. überdemokratikus (intensifier-democratic) ‘overly democratic’, übermacsó (intensifier-macho) ‘overly macho, übernegatív (intensifier-negative) ‘overly negative’