nagyban
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nagy (“big, large”) + -ban (“in”, inessive case suffix). The adverb sense is a lexicalization.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nagyban
Adverb
[edit]nagyban (not comparable)
- significantly, considerably
- in earnest, in full swing (with considerable commitment, determination, or effect; proceeding fully, quickly, or completely, thoroughly begun and in progress)
- wholesale, in bulk
- for high stakes
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- (adverb): See sense 5 among the noun senses (III.) of nagy 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