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Hungarian
Etymology
From mint + sem.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
mintsem
- than
- Ez inkább lassítja, mintsem gyorsítja a folyamatot. ― This is more likely to slow down rather than to speed up the process.
1967, E. M. Forster, chapter I, in Árpád Göncz, transl., Út Indiába, Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, part I (A mecset), page 9; translation of A Passage to India, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1942 :A Gangesz inkább szegélyezi, mintsem mossa, a város ott húzódik mérföldhosszan a partján, s alig különbözik a szeméttől, amit a folyó oly bőven sodor a partra.
Further reading
- mintsem 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