vesz

From earlier *vewə- (compare vevő ‘buying’, vett ‘he bought’), from Proto-Uralic *wexe- (“to take”). Often considered a doublet of visz (“to carry”), but this may not be correct.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛs]

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

vesz

1. (transitive, intransitive) to take, grab (out of some food etc.: -ból/-ből)

   Synonyms: elvesz, fog, megfog

   Vegyél egy almát! ― Take an apple.

   Vehetek még a tortából? ― May I take some more cake?

2. (transitive) to get, take, obtain

   Synonyms: szerez, beszerez, megszerez, szert tesz, kerít

   Honnan vetted ezt a könyvet? ― Where did you get this book from?

3. (transitive) to buy (optionally: from someone: -tól/-től, for someone: -nak/-nek)

   Synonyms: vásárol, megvásárol, megvesz

   Antonym: elad

   Vegyél nekem kenyeret, légy szíves. ― Please buy me some bread.

4. (transitive) to take (classes)

   Zongoraórákat vettem tőle. ― I took piano lessons from her.

5. (transitive) to consider, deem, regard (as something: -nak/-nek), take (assign some quality to)

   Synonym: tekint

   Ha nem válaszolsz, azt beleegyezésnek veszem. ― If you don't reply, I'll consider it as consent.

   Ne vedd komolyan! ― Don't take him/her/it seriously.

6. (transitive) to consider, take (to take up as an example)

   Vegyünk egy egyenlő oldalú háromszöget. ― Consider an equilateral triangle.

   Vegyük például a szomszédaimat. ― Take my neighbors, for example.

7. (transitive) to put on (clothes)

   Synonym: felvesz

   Cipőt, kabátot veszek, és indulok. ― I’ll put on shoes and a coat and I'll set off.

• The verbs vész and veszik (q.v.) (“to perish, to be destroyed, to get lost”) may also appear as vesz in some phrases.
• 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, bán–bánik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik, ér–érik, esz (rare)–eszik, hajol–hajlik, (felül)múl–(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúl–nyúlik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik~(el)vész, and tör–törik (along with their verbal prefixes), hall–hallik (archaic), érez–érzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibáz–hibádzik, (le)torkol–torkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

Note that the sound -sz is only part of the present-tense indicative forms of this verb, otherwise its stem is ve-. For past-tense and conditional/subjunctive forms starting with vesz-, see the conjugation of the unrelated verbs vész/veszik and (for the subjunctive) veszt.

(With verbal prefixes):

• vész and veszik (they can also appear as vesz)

• (to get, take, buy etc.): vesz 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
• (alternative form of vész): vesz 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