magában
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɒɡaːbɒn]
- Hyphenation: ma‧gá‧ban
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Pronoun
magában
Adverb
magában (not comparable)
- by oneself, on one's own, without any company
- Synonyms: egyedül, egymagában
- Ökör iszik magában. ― Drinking is not meant to be on one's own (literally, “[Only] an ox drinks by himself.”)
- on its own, without anything added
- A pirítóson szeretem a sajtot, de magában nem eszem meg. ― I love cheese on toast, but I won't eat it on its own.
Further reading
- magában 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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