tovább
See also: tovább-
Hungarian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
edittovább (not comparable)
- further, farther (in distance)
- comparative degree of sokáig (“for long”): longer (in time)
Usage notes
edit- When it is used in the temporal sense (“proceeding, going on doing something”), it is an adverb, written in two words: tovább alszik, tovább dolgozik, tovább él, tovább szolgál, tovább tart.
- When it is used in a spatial sense (“on, further”), it can be a verbal prefix as well. This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with tovább-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see tovább-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.
- For another adverb that can be a prefix as well, see előre and előre-.
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Further reading
edit- tovább 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