jó

• IPA^(key): [ˈjoː]

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• Rhymes: -joː

From Proto-Ugric *jomɜ ~ *jamɜ (“good”). Cognates include Northern Mansi ёмас (ëmas, “good, right, nice”)^[1][2] and possibly also Erzya ён (jon, “good, right, nice”).

jó (comparative jobb, superlative legjobb)

1. good (good for something (can be used for) -ra/-re, good at something -ban/-ben, good for someone (positively affects) -nak/-nek, good to someone [e.g. helping, caring] -hoz/-hez/-höz)

   See synonyms at Thesaurus:jó.

   Antonym: rossz

2. (used with ideje/ideig, darab, adag, néhány and some other fixed phrases) quite (some), fair (amount of…), considerable, significant, hefty, sizeable

   Synonyms: jókora, jelentős

   Jó ideje vándorolt már. ― He had been on his way for quite some time.

jó (plural jók or javak)

1. good thing or person

   Még a jóktól is elvették a javaikat.

   Even the good ones were deprived of their possessions.

   (literally, “Even from the good ones too they took away their goods.”)

2. B (an academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A) (Uses only the "jó-" stem, not "jav-".)
3. (plural only) goods, possessions, assets (see at javak)

The 5-point grade system in Hungary:

1. jeles (“excellent”) or ötös (“five”), like English A
2. jó (“good”) or négyes (“four”), like English B
3. közepes (“fair, satisfactory”) or hármas (“three”), like English C
4. elégséges (“sufficient”) or kettes (“two”), like English D
5. elégtelen (“insufficient”) or egyes (“one”), like English F

In the senses “good thing or person” and “B (academic grade)”:

In the sense “goods, possessions, assets”:

jó

1. alright, okay, fine

jó (not comparable)

1. (informal) quite, pretty

   Jó nagy halat fogtál! ― You've caught a pretty big fish!

From Proto-Uralic *joke.^[3] Cognates include Northern Mansi я̄ (â̄, “river”), Finnish joki (“river”), Estonian jõgi (“river”), Karelian jogi (“river”), Veps jogi (“river”). Replaced by folyó.

jó (plural jók)

2. (obsolete) river (occurs in compound proper names, such as Sajó, Berettyó, Héjő)

• ^ Géza Bárczi, Magyar szófejtő szótár, Trezor Kiadó, 1991, →ISBN
• ^ Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #1782

• jó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

jó

1. water

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)

jó

1. Alternative spelling of gió

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “jó”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

jó

1. well, you see, you know, as you know

   Jó, nizhóní! ― Well, that’s nice.

   Jó, ákótʼé. ― that’s the way it is.

jó

1. since

jó

1. hear

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

jó

1. accusative singular of jór

jó

1. water

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)