ugyan
Appearance
See also: ugyan-
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Lexicalization of úgy + -an (adverb-forming suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ugyan
- I wonder…, oh and…
- Synonym: vajon
- Ugyan ki lehet az? ― I wonder who that might be.
- Ugyan mi erre a bizonyíték? ― I wonder what is the proof of this?
- Ugyan mit tudsz te az életről?! ― I wonder what you know about life at all?
- at all, by chance
- Synonym: egyáltalán
- Visszahozzuk, ha ugyan el nem lopták. ― We’ll return it if it has not been stolen by chance.
- Visszahozzuk, ha ugyan ott van még. ― We’ll return it if it’s still there at all.
- for sure (chiefly in negative sentences)
Derived terms
[edit]See also the derived terms of ugyan- (a prefix for pronouns and adverbs).
Compound words
Descendants
[edit]- → Pannonian Rusyn: удян (udjan)
Conjunction
[edit]ugyan
Interjection
[edit]ugyan
- hell no, no way, not at all (discarding a possibility)
- Biztos a kocsmába mentek! – Ők? Ugyan! ― “They must have gone to the pub!” “Them? No way!”
- hey
- Synonym: dehogy
- Ugyan, menjen innen! ― Hey, get along with you!
- Ugyan, ne sírj! ― Hey, don’t cry.
References
[edit]- ^ ugyan in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- ugyan 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
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- Hungarian conjunctions
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