felmegy

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Hungarian

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Etymology

fel- (up) +‎ megy (to go)

Pronunciation

Verb

felmegy (intransitive)

  1. to ascend to, to go up somewhere (to move to a higher or more northern place; used with lative suffixes for the direction and optionally -n/-on/-en/-ön for the connecting passage)
    Felment az emeletre átöltözni.He/she went upstairs to change. (literally, “…up to the floor…”)
    Felment a lépcsőn a hálószobájába.He/she went up the stairs to his/her bedroom.
    Feltámadt a halálból és felment a mennybe.He was raised from the dead and ascended to heaven.
    Autóbusszal mentünk fel a kilátóhoz.We went to the lookout tower by bus.
  2. (theater, of the curtain) to go up, rise
    Synonym: felgördül
  3. (of articles of clothing, shoes) to fit (to conform to in size)
    Synonym: rámegy
    Ez a cipő már nem megy fel a lábamra.These shoes no longer fit. (literally, “this shoe doesn’t go up to my foot anymore”)

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Further reading

  • felmegy 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