Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

ki- +‎ lép

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkileːp]
  • Hyphenation: ki‧lép
  • Rhymes: -eːp

Verb edit

kilép

  1. (intransitive) to step out of somewhere (separative suffixes) to another place (lative suffixes)
    Kiléptek a házból a teraszra.They stepped out of the house onto the deck.
    Kiléptem a folyosóra.I went out into the corridor.
    Kiléptünk a holdfénybe.We stepped out into the moonlight.
  2. (intransitive) to step out of (to lift one leg out of clothing, shoes) (-ból/-ből)
    Kilépett a cipőjéből.She stepped out of her shoes.
  3. (intransitive) to step out of (line) (to move out of a line of people)
  4. (intransitive) to step out (to walk quicker by increasing the length, but not the rapidity, of the step)
  5. (intransitive, sports) to step out of bounds
  6. (intransitive) to exit, to discharge, to resign, to quit (to leave an organization voluntarily)
  7. (intransitive) to grow out of a certain age
    Kilépett a gyermekkorból.He grew out of childhood.
  8. (intransitive, literary, of river) to overflow, to leave (its banks)
    A folyó kilépett a medréből.The river overflowed its banks.
  9. (transitive) to measure the length of something by walking through it and counting the steps
    Kilépte a pálya hosszát.He measured the length of the field by counting his steps.

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • kilép 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