húz-halaszt
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]húz (“to pull, draw”) + halaszt (“to delay”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (transitive) to procrastinate (to continually delay something)
- Csak húzták-halasztották a döntést. ― They kept putting off the decision.
Conjugation
[edit]- Both verbs are conjugated independently, always connected with a hyphen.
Further reading
[edit]- húz-halaszt 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
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