hátravan
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hátravan
- (intransitive) to be left, to be yet to come (out of some amount, e.g. time)
- Synonym: marad
- (intransitive) to remain (to stay behind while others withdraw, e.g. in line or on a queue, not having one’s turn yet)
- (intransitive) to be outstanding, remain to be done (not settled or finished)
Usage notes edit
It is written in two words in the sense “to be backward, at the back, behind” (as a physical or figurative location), i.e., synonymously with hátul van / áll.[1]
Conjugation edit
conjugation of hátravan
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References edit
- ^ Tóth, Etelka, editor (2017), Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint [Dictionary of Hungarian orthography: according to the 12th edition of the Rules of Hungarian orthography], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN. Online version
Further reading edit
- hátravan 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