Hungarian

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Etymology

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nehéz (difficult) +‎ -ít (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnɛhɛziːt]
  • Hyphenation: ne‧he‧zít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

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nehezít

  1. (transitive) to weigh down (to make something heavier, to increase the weight of something by adding extra weight)
  2. (transitive) to complicate, to make things more difficult or hard
    Az üzlet bezárása nehezített a helyzeten.The closing of the store made the situation more difficult.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

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Further reading

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  • nehezít 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