jóváír

Hungarian

Etymology

jóvá + ír

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjoːvaːjiːr]
  • Hyphenation: jó‧vá‧ír
  • Rhymes: -iːr

Verb

jóváír

  1. (transitive, banking) to credit, to enter some amount to someone (-nak/-nek) or his/her credit (-n/-on/-en/-ön or -ra/-re)
    Antonyms: terhel, megterhel

Usage notes

  • Jóvá- works like a verbal prefix, so it separates from the root wherever a verbal prefix would do so, e.g. nem írtak jóvá nekem semennyit (they did not credit anything to my account).

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • jóváír 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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