dolgozik

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the dolg- stem of dolog +‎ -ozik.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdolɡozik]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: dol‧go‧zik
  • Rhymes: -ozik

Verb

dolgozik

  1. (intransitive) to work (on something: -n/-on/-en/-ön or at a company: -nál/-nél)
    • 1935–1937, Attila József, „(Ne légy szeles…)” (“Don’t be hasty”),[1] poem, line 3-5
      […] / dolgozni csak pontosan, szépen, ahogy a csillag megy az égen, úgy érdemes.
      […] / to work precisely, neatly,
      as the star moves along the sky,
      so is meritable only.
  2. (intransitive) to work, strive, for something: -ért
    A polgármester mindig a város érdekéért dolgozott.The mayor always worked for the benefit of the city.

Conjugation

Its regular verbal noun form dolgozás rarely occurs outside of prefixed compounds (átdolgozás, kidolgozás etc.), and an etymologically unrelated noun, munka is usually applied for this purpose.

Derived terms

  • dolgoz (chiefly with an adverb of result; usually in the sense of processing, making, effecting, shaping, forming, fitting, adjusting, or integrating something into/onto something else); see also its prefixed derivatives there.
  • dolgozó

(With verbal prefixes):

With verbal prefixes and a reflexive pronoun

(Expressions):

See also

References

  1. ^ dolgozik in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • dolgozik 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
  • dolgozik in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).