hanem
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]hanem
- but (instead); the preceding clause contains a negative statement and the following clause contains the correction needed to make it positive. See the example.
- Nem a postára megyek, hanem a boltba. ― I'm not going to the post office but to the store.
Further reading
[edit]- hanem in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.