láttára

Hungarian

Etymology

From látta +‎ -ra (“onto”, case suffix), from lát (“to see”) +‎ -ta (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈlaːtːaːrɒ]
  • Hyphenation: lát‧tá‧ra
  • Rhymes: -rɒ

Adverb

láttára (not comparable)

  1. (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
Inflection of láttára
person singular plural
1st láttomra láttunkra
2nd láttodra láttotokra
3rd láttára láttukra

Further reading
  • 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
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