hanem

Hungarian

Etymology

ha +‎ nem

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒnɛm]
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  • Hyphenation: ha‧nem
  • Rhymes: -ɛm

Conjunction

hanem

  1. 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
  • hanem 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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