# igen
## Danish
### Alternative forms

* igjen (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Adverb

igen
* again

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e／ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g／-ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266.
According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen “evidently, indeed, certainly”, from erken, from *er- (“to be”), although this etymology is considered less probable.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈiɡɛn]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: igen
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Adverb

igen (not comparable)
* (literary) quite, very, rather, highly
    Synonym: nagyon
** 1974, Leo Tolstoy (author), László Németh (translator), Anna Karenina [Anna Karenina], Bucharest: Kriterion Könyvkiadó (1989), →ISBN, volume 1, part 1, chapter 1, page 7:
    Az történt vele ebben a pillanatban, ami az emberrel történni szokott, ha váratlanul igen szégyenletes dolgon érik. Arcát nem tudta a helyzethez szabni, amelybe bűne felfedésével a felesége előtt került.There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault.
** 1975, Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson, Sorstalanság, Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó (2016), →ISBN, page 25:Utolsónak mostohaanyám legidősebb bátyja, Lajos bácsi érkezett. Ő valami igen fontos tisztséget tölt be a családunkban, bár egész pontosan meghatározni nem tudnám, milyet.The last person to arrive was my stepmother’s oldest brother, Uncle Lajos. He fulfills some terribly important function in our family, though I’d be hard put to define exactly what that was.

#### Derived terms

* igencsak
* igen-igen

### Interjection

igen
* yes
    Synonyms: (informal) aha, (colloquial or slang) ja
    Antonym: nem

#### Derived terms

* igenis
* ez igen

### Noun

igen (plural igenek)
* yes

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (“Explanatory Dictionary Plus”). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN
* 1 2 igen in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
* ↑ Lars Johanson (2004 April) “On the Turkic Origin of Hungarian igen 'yes'”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎, volume 57, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 93–104

### Further reading

* (very): igen 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
* (yes): igen 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

## Japanese
### Romanization

igen
* Rōmaji transcription of いげん

## Karelian

Regional variants of igen :
| North Karelian (Viena) | ijen |
| South Karelian (Tver) | igen |

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *igen, as if from *iken. Cognates include Finnish ien and Veps igin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiɡen/
* Hyphenation: i‧gen

### Noun

igen (genitive igenen, partitive igendä)
* (South Karelian) gum (of the mouth)

#### Declension
### References

* A. V. Punzhina (1994) “igen”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *igen.

### Noun

igen
* gums

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse í gegn (“against”), from í (“in, on”) and gegn (“straight, direct”).

### Adverb

igen (not comparable)
* again
* to a closed state, up, shut (of for example a door or something getting clogged)
    Han slängde igen dörrenHe slammed the door ("threw shut the door")
    Han sparkade igen dörrenHe kicked the door shut

#### Synonyms

* ånyo (archaic or formal)

### Anagrams

* Inge, geni