tanít

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tuna- (to get used to, to learn) + -ít (causative suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒniːt]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧nít

Verb

tanít

  1. (transitive) to teach (to pass on knowledge to)
    Perfective: megtanít
    Synonym: oktat
    Coordinate term: tanul
  2. (transitive) to teach (to cause to learn or understand)
  3. (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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

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 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 gyerekeknekI teach the children English.
Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket.I teach the children English.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ Entry #1078 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ 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.)