tanít
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Ugric *tonĭ-, from Proto-Uralic *tuna- (“to get used to, to learn”) + -ít (causative suffix).[1][2] Cognates include Erzya тонадомс (tonadoms, “to get used to, to learn”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
tanít
- (transitive) to teach (to pass on knowledge to)
- 1937 April 11, Attila József, Születésnapomra (“For My Birthday”), translated by Péter Zollman:[3]
- Én egész népemet fogom / nem középiskolás fokon / taní- / tani!
- I’ll teach my nation, one and all, / much greater things than what you call / college / knowledge.
- Én egész népemet fogom / nem középiskolás fokon / taní- / tani!
- 1937 April 11, Attila József, Születésnapomra (“For My Birthday”), translated by Péter Zollman:[3]
- (transitive) to teach (to cause to learn or understand)
- (intransitive) to teach (to act as a teacher)
- 2012 July 10, Márton Simó, “Alfabéták”, in Udvarhelyi Híradó, volume 23, number 130, page 2:
- Egy időben olyan helyen tanítottam, ahol nem volt nagy becsülete az iskolának és annak a tudásnak sem, amit ott csepegtetnek az emberi lelkekbe.
- At one point, I taught in a place where there was little respect for schools or the knowledge they instill in people’s souls there.
Usage notes[edit]
In the sense ’to pass on knowledge to’, the most common argument structure is the accusative for the subject (the field of teaching) and the dative (-nak/-nek) for the recipients (the people being instructed). However, the subject (the field of teaching) can also take -ra/-re if the recipients are specified with the accusative:
- Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek ― I teach the children English. → (alternative translation) I teach English to the children.
- Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket. ― I teach the children English. → (alternative translation) I teach the children about English.
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of tanít
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References[edit]
- ^ Entry #1078 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
- ^ tanít 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.)
- ^ In Quest of the Miracle Stag, The Poetry of Hungary, 2000
Further reading[edit]
- tanít in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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