Fnév

Fnév is not a standard term in major linguistic or encyclopedic usage. It commonly appears to be a misspelling, shorthand, or an informal label, and its precise meaning depends on context. In Hungarian-language materials the closest established word is főnév, meaning the category of noun. Because fnév has no fixed definition in widely accepted reference works, readers should rely on surrounding text to determine its intended sense.

If interpreted as főnév (the Hungarian noun), the term refers to a word class that names persons, places, things, or ideas. In Hungarian grammar, nouns are inflected for number (singular or plural) and for cases using suffixes, and they may take possessive forms. Hungarian nouns do not inflect for grammatical gender, but they do interact with adjectives, determiners, and postposed suffixes. Common examples include ház (house), ember (person), könyv (book). Examples of inflected forms: házban (in the house), könyvek (books), emberként (as a person).

Across languages, noun systems vary. Many languages distinguish common nouns from proper nouns, and mark features such as number, case, gender, or definiteness. Some languages use articles or determiners with nouns, while others rely on case endings or word order to convey grammatical relations.

In computing and data-entry contexts, similar-looking labels such as fname or fnév may appear as field names representing a person’s first name, though the canonical Hungarian term for that field is keresztnév. Overall, fnév is best understood through its specific usage, with főnév as the standard reference point for the noun concept in Hungarian.