felmegy
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- fölmegy
Etymology
fel- (“up”) + megy (“to go”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɛlmɛɟ]
- Hyphenation: fel‧megy
- Rhymes: -ɛɟ
Verb
felmegy (intransitive)
- to ascend to, to go up somewhere (to move to a higher or more northern place; used with lative suffixes for the direction and optionally -n/-on/-en/-ön for the connecting passage)
- Felment az emeletre átöltözni. ― He/she went upstairs to change. (literally, “…up to the floor…”)
- Felment a lépcsőn a hálószobájába. ― He/she went up the stairs to his/her bedroom.
- Feltámadt a halálból és felment a mennybe. ― He was raised from the dead and ascended to heaven.
- Autóbusszal mentünk fel a kilátóhoz. ― We went to the lookout tower by bus.
- (theater, of the curtain) to go up, rise
- Synonym: felgördül
- (of articles of clothing, shoes) to fit (to conform to in size)
- Synonym: rámegy
- Ez a cipő már nem megy fel a lábamra. ― These shoes no longer fit. (literally, “this shoe doesn’t go up to my foot anymore”)
Conjugation
conjugation of felmegy
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 | |||
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Indicative mood | Present | Indef. | felmegyek | felmész (or felmégy) | felmegy | felmegyünk | felmentek | felmennek |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | felmentem | felmentél | felment | felmentünk | felmentetek | felmentek | |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | felmennék | felmennél | felmenne | felmennénk | felmennétek | felmennének |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | felmenjek | felmenj or felmenjél | felmenjen | felmenjünk | felmenjetek | felmenjenek |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Infinitive | felmenni | felmennem | felmenned | felmennie | felmennünk | felmennetek | felmenniük | |
Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
felmenés or felmenetel | felmenő | felment | felmenendő | felmenve or felmenvén | felmehet |
Derived terms
- felmenő
Further reading
- felmegy 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