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Hungarian
Etymology
From fél (“half”) + -ben (“in”, inessive case suffix).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-félben
- (adverb-forming suffix) about to, in the process of, in the middle of (engaged in, but not finished with; added to present-participles to create an adverb)
- váló (“divorcing”) + -félben → válófélben (“in the process of divorcing”)
- A barátomék válófélben vannak. ― My friends are going through a divorce. (They are in the process of divorcing.)
Derived terms
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Further reading
- -félben 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