tör

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tor"

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtør]
  • Rhymes: -ør

Verb

tör

  1. (transitive) to break
    Middle-voice counterpart: törik
  2. (intransitive) to strive for something (-ra/-re)
    • 1832 (original), 1942 (translation), Goethe, Faust, translation by Zoltán Jékely:
      Kicsoda vagy tehát? / Az erő része, mely / örökké rosszra tör, s örökké jót mível.
      Who art thou, then? / Part of that Power, not understood, / Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

Usage notes

  • This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz(le)áldozik, bánbánik, (meg)bíz(meg)bízik, érérik, esz (rare)eszik, hajolhajlik, (felül)múl(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúlnyúlik, (el)vesz(el)veszik~(el)vész, and törtörik (along with their verbal prefixes), hallhallik (archaic), érezérzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibázhibádzik, (le)torkoltorkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

Conjugation

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Expressions

References

  1. tör in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • tör 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

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Swedish þora, þøra, þura, from Old Norse þora, of unknown origin. Doublet of töras ("to dare"). Cognate with Old Danish thoræ, thuræ, tørre.

Verb

tör

  1. present of torde

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Anagrams

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