múlva

Hungarian

Etymology

múlik +‎ -va (adverbial-participle suffix)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmuːlvɒ]
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  • Hyphenation: múl‧va
  • Rhymes: -vɒ

Participle

múlva

  1. (now rare) adverbial participle of múlik

Postposition

múlva

  1. in …… (after, at the end of the given amount of time)
    egy perc múlva ― in a minute
    kis idő múlva ― soon, shortly, in a little while
    öt perc múlva két óra ― [it’s] five to two (literally, “[it will be] two o’clock in five minutes”)

Further reading
  • múlva 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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