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Hungarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
köré + -je (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
köréje
- to around him/her/it
- A tűz már égett; köréje ültek a gyerekek. ― The campfire was already burning; the children (came and) sat down around it.
- 1933, Attila József, Reménytelenül (“Without Hope”), third stanza, translation by Edwin Morgan:
- A semmi ágán ül szivem, / kis teste hangtalan vacog, / köréje gyűlnek szeliden / s nézik, nézik a csillagok.
- My heart sits on the twig of nothing, / its little body shivering, dumb. / In calm unbroken gathering, / staring, staring, the stars come.
- (literally, “the stars gather around it”)
Declension
Further reading
- köréje 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