megvan

meg- +‎ van

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡvɒn]

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• Hyphenation: meg‧van
• Rhymes: -ɒn

megvan

1. (intransitive) to [still] exist

   Synonym: megmarad

   Még mindig megvan az a régi kávézó a sarkon. ― That old café on the corner is still there.

2. (intransitive) to exist, to be accessible (e.g. a copy of a book)

   Synonyms: elérhető, hozzáférhető, kapható, rendelkezésre áll

   Meghallgatjuk az albumot? Megvan [nekem] bakeliten. ― Shall we listen to the album? I have it on vinyl.

3. (intransitive) to be at hand, to have (the thing had is in the nominative case)

   Synonyms: nála van, a birtokában van

   Megvan a kocsi? ― You got the car?

   1. (intransitive, past tense "meglett") to be found (something one has been looking for)

      Synonyms: előkerült, megkerült, megtaláltam

      Megvannak a kulcsok, a hűtő alatt voltak. ― I've found the keys, they were under the fridge.

   2. (intransitive, past tense "meglett") to be gotten/caught by someone, gotcha

      Synonym: elkaptalak

      Na, most megvagy! ― Now I got you!

4. (intransitive, past tense "meglett") to be ready, to be done (with something: -val/-vel)

   Synonyms: készen van vele, kész van vele, elkészült vele, túl van rajta

   Megleszel a prezentációval szerdáig? ― Are you going to be done with the presentation by Wednesday?

5. (intransitive, in past tense) (event, task) to be over

   Synonyms: lezajlik, megtörténik, végbemegy

   Megvolt a koncert, jöhet az afterparti. ― The concert is over, time for the after-party.

   1. (slang, vulgar, intransitive, in past tense) to be a sexual conquest (of: -nak/-nek); to have been scored with
6. (intransitive, past tense "meglett") (goal, achievement) to have been reached, to have been succeeded at (by someone: -nak/-nek) (e.g. passing an exam)

   Synonym: sikerült neki

   Károlynak meglett az összes vizsgája a félévben. ― Károly has passed all his exams for the semester.

7. (intransitive) to be (doing) okay, all right, not too bad (in terms of health)

   Synonyms: vagyogat, szo-szo

   1. (intransitive) to manage, do without something (nélkül)

      Synonyms: elvan, elboldogul

8. (intransitive) to get along, get on (well) with someone (-val/-vel)

   Synonym: kijön vele

9. (intransitive) to be at least as much/many and perhaps more (when estimating a quantity)

   Ez a hal megvan ötven kiló is. ― This fish must be fifty kilograms or even more.

   1. (intransitive, arithmetics) (used when stating the result of a quotition)

      Harminckilencben a hét megvan ötször, marad a négy. ― Seven fits into thirty-nine five times, with four left over.

(to be at hand, to have): The subject of certain verbs is not someone who acts but a stimulus that prompts sensory or emotional feelings, like when things interest someone, matter to someone, please someone or appeal to someone. In these cases, the experiencer can take the accusative (e.g. interest) or the dative (e.g. appeal). The experiencer is expressed with the dative in the case of hiányzik (“to be missing or missed by someone”), ízlik (“to taste good”), kell (“to be needed, necessary, or required”), tetszik (“to be appealing”), and van/megvan (“to be had, to be owned by someone”).
If the experiencer is expressed with the accusative, third-person objects (him, her, it, or them) are considered definite, while first- and second-person objects (me, us, and you), indefinite. For example, the verb érdekel can take the definite form érdekli őt (“he/she is interested”, literally “it interests him/her”) or the indefinite form érdekel engem/​téged/​minket (“I am, you are, we are interested”, literally “it interests me, you, us”). The form érdekellek means “you are interested in me” (literally, “I interest you”). — Similar verbs include zavar (“to be bothered by”) and izgat (“to be intrigued by”).^[1]

• megvan in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.