leül

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Hungarian

Etymology

le- +‎ ül

Pronunciation

Verb

leül

  1. (intransitive) to sit down (to assume a sitting position from a standing position)
  2. (transitive, informal) to convert financial penalty into time spent in jail instead of paying

Conjugation

The causative with -tet can either mean having someone (or some people) sit (down) or (colloquially) making someone go to jail, while the variant with -et may refer to having someone serve their (entire) prison term.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • leül 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