leég

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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le- +‎ ég

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛjeːɡ]
  • Hyphenation: le‧ég
  • Rhymes: -eːɡ

Verb

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leég

  1. (intransitive) to burn down (to burn completely, so that nothing remains)
  2. (intransitive, of food) to burn (to burn down to the bottom of the pan during cooking)
  3. (intransitive, chiefly as adverbial participle with van) to become broke (to run out of money; to become bankrupt)
    Le vagyok égve.I’m broke.
  4. (intransitive) to sunburn (to receive a sunburn)
  5. (intransitive, colloquial) to fall flat on one's face, to experience defeat

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • leég 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