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telik

telik

Hungarian

Verb

telik

  1. (intransitive) to fill (get filled)
  2. (of time) to elapse, to pass, to go by
    Telik az idő. - Time is going by.
  3. to be able to afford to buy something -ra/-re
    Nem telik új kocsira. - We can't afford a new car.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • betelik
  • beletelik

References

  1. Entry #1042 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6