veszít

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

vesz (to perish) +‎ -ít (causative suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛsiːt]
  • Hyphenation: ve‧szít

Verb

veszít

  1. (transitive) to lose
    Sok vért veszített.He'd lost a lot of blood.
  2. (intransitive) to lose (-ból/-ből)
    Veszítünk a magasságból.We're losing altitude.
  3. (transitive) to lose, miss (to wander from so as not to be able to find; to go astray from)
    nyomot veszítto lose track

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • veszít in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN