múlva

Hungarian

Etymology

múlik +‎ -va (adverbial-participle suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmuːlvɒ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: múl‧va
  • Rhymes: -vɒ

Participle

múlva

  1. (now rare) adverbial participle of múlik

Postposition

múlva

  1. in …… (after, at the end of the given amount of time)
    egy perc múlva ― in a minute
    kis idő múlva ― soon, shortly, in a little while
    öt perc múlva két óra ― [it’s] five to two (literally, “[it will be] two o’clock in five minutes”)

Further reading

  • múlva in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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