hanem

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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ha +‎ nem

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒnɛm]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧nem
  • Rhymes: -ɛm

Conjunction

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hanem

  1. but (instead); the preceding clause contains a negative statement and the following clause contains the correction needed to make it positive. See the example.
    Nem a postára megyek, hanem a boltba.I'm not going to the post office but to the store.

Further reading

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  • hanem 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