No. 77 in Hungarian
néhány
"Some" or "a few."
In a sentence
Néhány ember már megérkezett az ünnepségre.
Some people have already arrived at the celebration.
Here, "néhány" is used to indicate an indefinite small quantity of people, meaning "some" or "a few" in English.
Megkérdeztem néhány kérdést az előadás során.
I asked a few questions during the presentation.
In this sentence, "néhány" refers to a small, indefinite number of questions that I asked, implying not many and being similar to "a few" in English.
A kertben néhány virág már elkezdett kinyílni.
In the garden, some flowers have already begun to bloom.
The word "néhány" here indicates a select, unspecified quantity of flowers, denoting a minority that started blooming and aligning with the English "some flowers."
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