károkkal

Károkkal is the instrumental plural form of the Hungarian noun káró, which designates the diamond suit in a standard deck of playing cards. The term is used when describing actions or contexts that involve the káró cards, such as playing with diamonds in card games or referring to diamond cards collectively.

Etymology and morphology: The noun káró originates in Hungarian as the name of the diamond suit, borrowed from German Karo. The plural form is károk (diamonds), and the instrumental plural is károkkal, formed by adding the -kkal suffix to the plural stem and causing a consonant doubling before the suffix. This construction is typical in Hungarian for instrumental plural forms of certain nouns.

Usage: Károkkal is primarily found in descriptions of card play and related contexts. It answers the question “with what?” in the plural instrumental sense. For example, in a sentence about a game, one might say that a player acted or played with diamonds: “A kör végén károkkal játszott” or “károkkal nyert a játékos,” meaning the player played with diamonds or won using the diamond cards.

See also: Káró (the diamond suit in Hungarian card terminology), pikk (the spade suit), treff (another card-suit term used in Hungarian), and a general overview of Hungarian card terminology.

Notes: As a grammatical form, károkkal belongs to standard Hungarian noun inflection and is used in contexts involving the diamond suit in card games or discussions of diamond cards.