Hosszabbat
Hosszabbat is a form related to the Hungarian adjective hosszú, meaning “long.” In standard Hungarian, the usual comparative form is hosszabb (longer). Hosszabbat is not a common, widely taught form in contemporary prescriptive grammar; it appears mainly as a dialectal, archaic, or pronominal variant in some contexts.
The base adjective hosszú can take the comparative suffix -abb to yield hosszabb, but when the form
- Két könyv közül a hosszabbat olvasom ki: I’m reading the longer one out of two books.
- A hosszabbat választottam: I chose the longer one.
- In many contexts, speakers would prefer a full noun phrase (“a hosszabb könyvet”) or simply the
Hosszabbat is more likely to be heard in regional speech, older texts, or informal speech. In modern
- hosszú
- hosszabb