megvan

Hungarian

Etymology

meg- +‎ van

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• Hyphenation: meg‧van
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Verb

megvan

1. (intransitive) to exist, to be accessible (e.g. a copy of a book)

   Synonyms: elérhető, hozzáférhető, kapható, rendelkezésre áll

2. (intransitive) to be at hand, to have (the thing had is in the nominative case)

   Synonyms: nála van, a birtokában van

   Megvan a kocsi? ― You got the car?

   1. (intransitive) to be found (something one has been looking for)

      Synonyms: előkerült, megkerült, megtaláltam

   2. (intransitive) to have gotten/caught someone, gotcha

      Synonym: elkaptalak

3. (intransitive) to be ready, to be done (with something: -val/-vel)

   Synonyms: készen van vele, kész van vele, elkészült vele, túl van rajta

4. (intransitive) to be over with something -val/-vel

   Synonyms: lezajlik, megtörténik, végbemegy

5. (intransitive) to have reached something, to have succeeded in achieving something (e.g. passing an exam)

   Synonym: sikerült neki

6. (intransitive) to be (doing) okay, all right, not too bad (in terms of health)

   Synonyms: vagyogat, szo-szo

7. (intransitive) to get along, get on (well) with someone (-val/-vel)

   Synonym: kijön vele

8. (intransitive) to be at least as much/many and perhaps more (as a result of a division in mathematics or estimating the age of someone or something)
9. (intransitive) to manage, do without (the thing not really lacked: nélkül)

   Synonyms: elvan, elboldogul

Usage notes

(to be at hand, to have): The subject of certain verbs is not someone who acts but a stimulus that prompts sensory or emotional feelings, like when things interest someone, matter to someone, please someone or appeal to someone. In these cases, the experiencer can take the accusative (e.g. interest) or the dative (e.g. appeal). The experiencer is expressed with the dative in the case of hiányzik (“to be missing or missed by someone”), ízlik (“to taste good”), kell (“to be needed, necessary, or required”), tetszik (“to be appealing”), and van/megvan (“to be had, to be owned by someone”).
If the experiencer is expressed with the accusative, third-person objects (him, her, it, or them) are considered definite, while first- and second-person objects (me, us, and you), indefinite. For example, the verb érdekel can take the definite form érdekli őt (“he/she is interested”, literally “it interests him/her”) or the indefinite form érdekel engem/​téged/​minket (“I am, you are, we are interested”, literally “it interests me, you, us”). The form érdekellek means “you are interested in me” (literally, “I interest you”). — Similar verbs include zavar (“to be bothered by”) and izgat (“to be intrigued by”).

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Further reading

• megvan 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