hasonlít

Hungarian

Etymology

From the obsolete hasonol (to make similar) + -ít.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒʃonliːt]
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  • Hyphenation: ha‧son‧lít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

hasonlít

  1. (intransitive, with -ra/-re or -hoz/-hez/-höz) to resemble, look like, take after (to be similar in appearance)
    Synonyms: emlékeztet, üt
    A lány a nagymamájához/nagymamájára hasonlít.The girl resembles her grandmother.
    Még a saját lánya sem hasonlít rá.Even his own daughter doesn't resemble him.
    Kire hasonlítasz?Who do you look like?
  2. (transitive) to compare (-hoz/-hez/-höz)
    Synonyms: összehasonlít, összevet
    Gyakran hasonlították őt Tony Blairhez.He was often compared to Tony Blair.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • hasonlít 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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