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Hungarian
Etymology
From fél (“half”) + -ben (“in”, inessive case suffix).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fél‧ben
Noun
félben
- inessive singular of fél
Adverb
félben (not comparable)
- unfinished, incomplete (half done, in an unfinished state)
- A vállalkozó otthagyta félben a munkát és elment. ― The contractor abandoned work and left.
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