óta
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ota"
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Postposition
[edit]óta
- since (a point in time)
- Hat óra óta dolgozom rajta. ― I've been working on it since eight o'clock.
- since a person's time, since a person's work
- Napóleon óta nem történt ilyen. ― Such a thing hasn't happened since Napoleon's time.
- (less common in this sense) for (a duration of time)
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Further reading
[edit]- óta 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