Húszonegyedik

Húszonedig? No. Húszonegyedik is the Hungarian ordinal form for twenty-one, used to indicate position in a sequence. It functions as an adjective or a numeral when naming order, and it agrees with the noun it modifies, as in huszonegyedik nap (the twenty-first day) or huszonegyedik század (the twenty‑first century).

Formation and orthography

The ordinal is formed by attaching the suffix -edik to the cardinal form for twenty-one, which in Hungarian is built from húsz (twenty) and egy (one). The standard written form is huszonegyedik, a single word. The stem huszon- reflects the tens-based construction common for 20–29; the -edik suffix marks the ordinal. In practice, huszonegyedik inherits regular Hungarian inflection across cases and numbers when used in phrases.

Usage

Húszonegyedik is used in dates and in ordinal numbering. For dates, the common construction is a date plus the suffix, for example: június huszonegyedikén (on June 21). In broader terms, it denotes the 21st item in an ordered list, the 21st day of a month, or the twenty‑first century: a huszonegyedik század. It appears in historical, literary, and formal registers as a standard part of Hungarian numeral grammar.

See also

Hungarian numerals, ordinal numbers in Hungarian, date expressions in Hungarian.