láttára
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From látta + -ra (“onto”, case suffix), from lát (“to see”) + -ta (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]láttára (not comparable)
- (usually construed with szeme (“one’s eye[s]”) in the appropriate personal-suffixed form) at the sight of someone, in one’s presence, on seeing someone or something, in full view of someone, before one’s eyes
- (A) szemem láttára lopta el a kártyát. ― S/he stole the card before my very eyes. (literally, “…at the sight of my eye”)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- látta 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