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Hungarian
Etymology
helyett + -e (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: he‧lyet‧te
- Rhymes: -tɛ
Pronoun
helyette
- instead of him/her/it
- Ki ment helyette? ― Who went instead of him/her?
- instead
- Nem volt elég pénzem a könyvre. Vettem egy CD-t helyette. ― I did not have enough money for the book. I bought a CD instead.
Declension
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References
Further reading
- helyette 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