kapóra jön
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kapóra + jön (“to come”), from kapó + -ra (“onto”, sublative case suffix), from kap (“to catch, grab”) + -ó (present-participle suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (idiomatic) to come in handy, to be convenient, to be a godsend (to prove to be useful or helpful)
- (idiomatic, of a person) to come just in time
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ kap in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
[edit]- kapó 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