majority; bulk · majority (specified as absolute Mehrheit) · plurality (specified as relative Mehrheit)
çekim: çoğul Mehrheiten · tamlayan Mehrheiten
eş: Großteil, Majorität, Mehrzahl
zıt: Minderheit, Minorität
köken: Calque of Dutch meerderheid (1719), itself probably a calque (± 1600) of French pluralité (“majority”), originating 1559. Old High German mērheit (“quality of being more”) had no attested continuation. Analyzable as mehr (“more”) + -heit (“-hood”).
Die meisten davon in Entwicklungsländern, und die Mehrheit dieser ist in Afrika. — Bunların çoğunluğu gelişmekte olan ülkelerde ve ekseriyetle de Afrika'da.
Pour la plupart, ça se passe dans les pays en voie de développement, dont la majorité est en Afrique. — Bunların çoğunluğu gelişmekte olan ülkelerde ve ekseriyetle de Afrika'da.
appended to the stem of a verb, this suffix yields a verbal noun; it is similar in function to the Dutch suffix -ing
köken: From Proto-Germanic *-þiz. The -s- is the result of a wrong segmentation of stem and suffix of a noun in cases where the stem of the noun ended with -s-. For example: a word like Dutch vorst (“frost”) could be interpreted as vors+t or as vor+st. This suffix existed already in Gothic (𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (ansts), from *𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (*unnan)).
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞ자ᇰ〮 (Yale: kòcáng). Original meaning: "very, extremely". Superlative meaning ("most") from sixteenth century onward. Displaced previous superlative adverbs 안〮직 (Yale: áncìk), ᄆᆞᆺ〮 (Yale: mós).
대다수가 저 개발 지역에서 발생하며, 그 중 대다수가 아프리카에서 발생 합니다. — Bunların çoğunluğu gelişmekte olan ülkelerde ve ekseriyetle de Afrika'da.
Om det sker, sĂĽ kanske det inte ens finns bakterier kvar. — Ekseriyetle, bizler buna karţý ihmalkarýz, bunun hakkýnda, bir ţey bilmek ve hatta duymak istemiyoruz.
prefix added to the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs to form the superlative form
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *najь-. From parts *na and particle *i. Approximates to prefix *nad-. Compare Russian наи- (nai-), Polish naj-, Serbo-Croatian naj-, Slovak naj- Slovene naj-, Czech nej-, Macedonian нај- (naj-), Bulgarian най- (naj-).
У 1860-1870-і роки у творчості Тютчева переважали політичні вірші. — 1860-1870’ncı yıllarda Tyutçev’in eserlerinde siyasal şiirler ekseriyetî teşkil eder.
köken: Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e /ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g /-ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266. According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen…
aile: igencsak, igen-igen
A másik India teljes északi része, mely a jövő népességi többletének javát fogja képezni. — Sonra geleceğin demografik payının ekseriyeti olacak bütün Kuzey Hindistan var.
I 1860- og 1870-årene skriver Tjuttsjev for det meste politiske dikt. — 1860-1870’ncı yıllarda Tyutçev’in eserlerinde siyasal şiirler ekseriyetî teşkil eder.