dolgozik

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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

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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

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  • 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

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With verbal prefixes and a reflexive pronoun

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See also

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References

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  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

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  • 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).