hanem
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
hanem
- but (instead); the preceding clause contains a negative statement and the following clause contains the correction needed to make it positive. See the example.
- Nem a postára megyek, hanem a boltba. ― I'm not going to the post office but to the store.
Further reading[edit]
- hanem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN