megvan

Hungarian

Etymology

meg- +‎ van

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡvɒn]
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Hyphenation: meg‧van
Rhymes: -ɒn

Verb

megvan

(intransitive) to exist, to be accessible (e.g. a copy of a book)
Synonyms: elérhető, hozzáférhető, kapható, rendelkezésre áll
(intransitive) to be at hand, to have (the thing had is in the nominative case)
Synonyms: nála van, a birtokában van
Megvan a kocsi? ― You got the car?
1. (intransitive) to be found (something one has been looking for)
  Synonyms: előkerült, megkerült, megtaláltam
2. (intransitive) to have gotten/caught someone, gotcha
  Synonym: elkaptalak
(intransitive) to be ready, to be done (with something: -val/-vel)
Synonyms: készen van vele, kész van vele, elkészült vele, túl van rajta
(intransitive) to be over with something -val/-vel
Synonyms: lezajlik, megtörténik, végbemegy
(intransitive) to have reached something, to have succeeded in achieving something (e.g. passing an exam)
Synonym: sikerült neki
(intransitive) to be (doing) okay, all right, not too bad (in terms of health)
Synonyms: vagyogat, szo-szo
(intransitive) to get along, get on (well) with someone (-val/-vel)
Synonym: kijön vele
(intransitive) to be at least as much/many and perhaps more (as a result of a division in mathematics or estimating the age of someone or something)
(intransitive) to manage, do without (the thing not really lacked: nélkül)
Synonyms: elvan, elboldogul

Usage notes

(to be at hand, to have): Sometimes the subject of the verb is not one that does any action but the stimulus prompting sensory or emotional feeling (not deliberately), as in the case of people or things that interest someone, matter to someone, please someone or appeal to someone (or another entity), sometimes differently from the perspective in English. In these cases, the experiencer (the entity that receives sensory or emotional input) can take the accusative (e.g. interest) or the dative (e.g. appeal). The experiencer is expressed with the dative in the case of hiányzik (“to be missing or missed by someone”), ízlik (“to taste good, to be pleasing [as of food]”), kell (“to be needed, necessary, or required”), tetszik (“to be appealing”), and van/megvan (“to be had, to be owned by someone”).

If the experiencer is expressed with the accusative, the object may be the third person (him, her, it, or them), which is considered definite in Hungarian, or it may be a first- or second-person object (me, us, and you), considered as indefinite. For example, with the verb érdekel, it takes the definite form érdekli őt “he/she is interested” (literally, “it interests him/her”), and the indefinite form érdekel engem/téged/minket for “I am, you are, we are interested” (literally, “it interests me, you, us”) in present-tense singular. The form érdekellek means “you are interested in me” (literally, “I interest you”). – Verbs with a similar syntactic behavior include zavar (“to be bothered by”) and izgat (“to be upset or intrigued by”).[1]

Conjugation

conjugation of megvan

			1st person sg	2nd person sg informal	3rd person sg, 2nd person sg formal	1st person pl	2nd person pl informal	3rd person pl, 2nd person pl formal
Indicative Mood	Present	Indefinite	megvagyok	megvagy	megvan	megvagyunk	megvagytok	megvannak
	Present	Definite	intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
	Past	Indefinite	megvoltam	megvoltál	megvolt	megvoltunk	megvoltatok	megvoltak
	Past	Definite	―
	Future	Indefinite	megleszek	megleszel	meglesz	megleszünk	meglesztek	meglesznek
	Future	Definite	―
Conditional Mood	Present	Indefinite	meglennék or megvolnék	meglennél or megvolnál	meglenne or megvolna	meglennénk or megvolnánk	meglennétek or megvolnátok	meglennének or megvolnának
	Present	Definite	―
	Past	Indefinite	meglettem volna	meglettél volna	meglett volna	meglettünk volna	meglettetek volna	meglettek volna
	Past	Definite	―
Subjunctive Mood	Present	Indefinite	meglegyek	meglégy or meglegyél	meglegyen	meglegyünk	meglegyetek	meglegyenek
Subjunctive Mood	Present	Definite	―
Infinitive	meglenni		meglennem	meglenned	meglennie	meglennünk	meglennetek	meglenniük
Other nonfinite verb forms			Verbal noun	Present participle	Past participle	Future part.	Adverbial part.	Potential
Other nonfinite verb forms			meglét	meglevő or meglévő	megvolt	megleendő	megléve or meglévén	meglehet

References

See also Verbs and adjectives that behave differently (in English vs. in Hungarian), Által (’By’), on the past participles derived from such verbs, On verbs of emotion, with special regard to their aspectual properties, especially the chart on page 3. In addition, see Thematic relation and Theta role in Wikipedia.