habozik
Hungarian
Etymology
hab (“foam”) + -ozik (verb-forming suffix). Its original meaning was “to undulate” (in the waves); this to and fro movement formed the basis of its current meaning of hesitation (compare wave and waver).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ ˈhɒbozik]
- Hyphenation: ha‧bo‧zik
- Rhymes: -ozik
Verb
habozik
- (intransitive) to hesitate
- Synonyms: tétovázik, hezitál, vacillál
Conjugation
conjugation of habozik
| 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indica- tive mood | Pre- sent | Indef. | habozok | habozol | habozik | habozunk | haboztok | haboznak |
| Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Past | Indef. | haboztam | haboztál | habozott | haboztunk | haboztatok | haboztak | |
| Def. | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Condi- tional mood | Pre- sent | Indef. | haboznék | haboznál | habozna | haboznánk | haboznátok | haboznának |
| Def. | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Sub- junc- tive mood | Pre- sent | Indef. | habozzak | habozz or habozzál | habozzon | habozzunk | habozzatok | habozzanak |
| Def. | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Infinitive | habozni | haboznom | haboznod | haboznia | haboznunk | haboznotok | habozniuk | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| habozás | habozó | habozott | ― | habozva | habozhat | |||
Derived terms
- habozás
See also
- habzik (“to emit foam”) (many of its forms coincide with the forms of the above verb)
Further reading
- habozik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.