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Hungarian
Etymology
egyenes (“straight”) + -en (adverbial suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: egye‧ne‧sen
Adverb
egyenesen (comparative egyenesebben, superlative legegyenesebben)
- in a straight line
- Két golyó egyenesen halad egymás felé 5 km/h sebességgel. ― Two balls are moving towards each other in a straight line at a speed of 3 mph.
- straight, directly, without detour
- A buli után egyenesen hazamentem. ― After the party, I went straight home.
- Ez a folyó egyenesen az Atlanti-óceánba torkollik. ― This river runs directly into the Atlantic.
- plainly, openly, without reservation
- Egyenesen megmondtam neki, hogy összetörtem az autóját. ― I told him plainly that I crashed his car.
- outright, absolutely
- De hisz ez egyenesen őrültség! ― But this is outright crazy!
Derived terms
Further reading
- egyenesen 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
- egyenesen in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).