Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

Numerals can be modified by approximatives, modifiers indicating exact values, modifiers indicating an upper or lower bound, and comparative modifiers.

Körülbelül/pontosan/legfeljebb/több,	mint	száz	diák	jött.
about/exactly/at.most/more	than	hundred	student	come.PST.3G

’About/Exactly/At most/More than one hundred students came.’

Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1067-1069

Universal quantifiers can be modified by approximatives with different degrees of acceptibility.

Majdnem/szinte/közel/*körülbelül	minden	bombát	megtaláltak.
almost/almost/nearly/about	every	bomb.ACC	PRT.find.PST.3PL

’They have found almost/almost/nearly/about every bomb.’

Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1135.

Degree-quantifiers, such as //sok// 'many, much' and //kevés// 'few' cannot co-occur with approximatives, but they can be modified by intensifiers. (Other degree-quantifiers, unversal and existential quantifiers cannot be modified in this way.)

elég/nagyon	sok/kevés
enough/very	many/few

’quite a lot, very much / fairly few, very little’

Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1121 and 1138.

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