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Hungarian Ordinal Words

1. becomes első, 2. becomes második, then the -dik suffix pattern

Converts integers to Hungarian ordinal words, handling the irregular első and második and the -dik suffix with vowel harmony for the rest, where only the last element of a compound takes the ending. Runs in your browser.

Which Hungarian ordinals are irregular?

First and second are irregular: első (1st) and második (2nd). From third onward the ordinals are regular, formed from the cardinal plus the -dik suffix with vowel harmony, giving harmadik, negyedik, ötödik and so on.

The Hungarian Ordinal Words tool converts a position number into its Hungarian ordinal word — első, második, harmadik, and so on. Hungarian ordinals are mostly regular, but the first two are irregular and compound numbers follow a specific rule, both of which this tool handles.

How it works

First and second are lexical irregulars: első and második. From third onward the ordinal is built from the cardinal plus the suffix -dik, with a linking vowel chosen by vowel harmony: harmadik (3), negyedik (4), ötödik (5), hatodik (6), tizedik (10), huszadik (20), századik (100), ezredik (1000). The tool stores these stems and assembles larger numbers from them.

The compound rule

In a multi-part number, only the last element takes the ordinal ending; everything before it stays cardinal. So 21st is huszonegyedik — the huszon- part is the cardinal twenty and only egy becomes egyedik. Likewise 103rd is százharmadik, with száz cardinal and harmadik carrying the ordinal ending.

1   →  első
2   →  második
21  →  huszonegyedik
100 →  századik

Tips and notes

  • A trailing dot (the Hungarian ordinal marker, as in 21.) is ignored, so you can paste a written ordinal.
  • The supported range is 1 to 9999, which covers dates, rankings, and list positions.
  • Only the final element changes, so the leading words of a compound always stay in their cardinal form.