dumál
See also: dumal and dumał
Hungarian
Etymology
duma (“talk, chat”) + -l (verb-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdumaːl]
- Hyphenation: du‧mál
- Rhymes: -aːl
Verb
dumál
- (intransitive, colloquial, also derogatory) to talk, spiel, chatter (to talk at length unnecessarily)
- Synonyms: fecseg, locsog, szövegel
- (intransitive, colloquial, also humorous) to talk, to chat, to speak (to be engaged in informal conversation)
- Synonyms: társalog, beszélget
- (transitive, colloquial, with -nak/-nek) to say something to someone
- Synonyms: mond, beszél
- (intransitive, colloquial, derogatory) to lie, fudge, prevaricate, fabricate (to state falsehoods)
- Synonyms: mellébeszél, hantál
Conjugation
conjugation of dumál
| 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal | 3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal | 1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal | 3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative mood | Present | Indef. | dumálok | dumálsz | dumál | dumálunk | dumáltok | dumálnak |
| Def. | dumálom | dumálod | dumálja | dumáljuk | dumáljátok | dumálják | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | dumállak | ― | ||||||
| Past | Indef. | dumáltam | dumáltál | dumált | dumáltunk | dumáltatok | dumáltak | |
| Def. | dumáltam | dumáltad | dumálta | dumáltuk | dumáltátok | dumálták | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | dumáltalak | ― | ||||||
| Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | dumálnék | dumálnál | dumálna | dumálnánk | dumálnátok | dumálnának |
| Def. | dumálnám | dumálnád | dumálná | dumálnánk (or dumálnók) | dumálnátok | dumálnák | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | dumálnálak | ― | ||||||
| Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | dumáljak | dumálj or dumáljál | dumáljon | dumáljunk | dumáljatok | dumáljanak |
| Def. | dumáljam | dumáld or dumáljad | dumálja | dumáljuk | dumáljátok | dumálják | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | dumáljalak | ― | ||||||
| Infinitive | dumálni | dumálnom | dumálnod | dumálnia | dumálnunk | dumálnotok | dumálniuk | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| dumálás | dumáló | dumált | dumálandó | dumálva | dumálhat | |||
Derived terms
- dumálgat
(With verbal prefixes):
- agyondumál
- bedumál
- beledumál
- kidumál
- ledumál
- megdumál
- mellédumál
- összedumál
- rádumál
Further reading
- dumál in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- dumál in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)