elhallgattat

Hungarian

Etymology

elhallgat (to stop talking, to fall silent) + -tat (causative suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛlɦɒlɡɒtːɒt]
  • Hyphenation: el‧hall‧gat‧tat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb

elhallgattat

  1. (transitive) causative of elhallgat: to silence, to shut up, to hush, to shush (to make quiet)
    Synonym: elnémít
    Győzelmével végre elhallgattatta a kritikusait.
    With his victory he has finally silenced his critics.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • elhallgattatás
  • elhallgattathatatlan

Further reading

  • elhallgattat 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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