miért - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- mért (folksy)
mi (“what”) + -ért (“for”, causal-final case ending)
miért
- causal-final singular of mi
Elmentek tejért. – Miért mentek? – Tejért.
- “They went for milk.” “For what did they go?” “For milk.”
miért
Hungarian table of correlatives (see also Hungarian demonstrative adverbs)
1 Semhogy and semmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as in inkább meghal, semhogy… ― he'll rather die than…).
2 Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations.
3 Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig).
Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”).
- miért 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