# hányas
## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* hanyas (folksy or dialectal)

### Etymology

hány +‎ -as

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhaːɲɒʃ]
* Hyphenation: há‧nyas
* Rhymes: -ɒʃ

### Determiner

hányas (interrogative)
* (interrogative) what? (representing which digit or number?)
    Hányas szám van odaírva? ― What number is written there?
* (interrogative) what size?
    Hányas cipőt hordasz? ― What is your shoe size? (literally, “What-size shoe[s] do you wear?”)
* (interrogative) what number? which?
    Hányas busszal megyünk? ― Which bus are we taking? (literally, “With what-number bus are we going?”)
* (interrogative) which (train, bus, etc., in terms of its time of departure)?
    Hányas vonattal mész/jössz? ― Which train are you taking? (literally, “With what-number train are you going/coming?”)

#### Usage notes

The following nominal 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 as No. 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. hatvanhatos út (“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

#### Declension

or

### Pronoun

hányas
* (interrogative) which digit or number?
* (interrogative) which person or thing, identified by a number?
* (interrogative) what grade (in school)?
* (interrogative) a person of which birthyear?
** 1976 (first broadcast on the radio), György Szilágyi, Hanyas vagy?, translation by Leslie A. Kery
    Hanyas vagy? ’28-as? / Mi félszavakból megértjük egymást.What are you? ’28-er? / We understand our shorthand way of speaking.

#### Declension
### See also

* hányadik
* melyik

### Further reading

* hányas in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN