lemegy

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Hungarian

Etymology

le- (downward; completion) +‎ megy (to go)

Pronunciation

Verb

lemegy

  1. (intransitive) to go down (to move from a higher place to a lower one)
  2. (intransitive) to decrease (to lessen in value)
  3. (intransitive) to go off (of an event, to take place and come to an end)
  4. (intransitive) to set, to go down (of a celestial body, to disappear below the horizon)
    Télen korán lemegy a nap.The sun sets early in the winter.
    • 2021, Zoltán Danyi, A rózsákról, Budapest: Magvető, →ISBN, page 7:
      Az ablaknál álltam, és vártam, hogy lemenjen a nap, mert ez volt a szabály, és ha nem akartam, hogy bajok legyenek, akkor meg kellett várnom, hogy lemenjen.
      I stood by the window and waited for the sun to go down because that was the rule, and if I didn't want any trouble, I had to wait for it to go down.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • lemegy 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