haszontalankodik

Hungarian

Etymology

haszontalan (naughty; worthless) + -kodik (to behave as, verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒsontɒlɒŋkodik]
  • Hyphenation: ha‧szon‧ta‧lan‧ko‧dik
  • Rhymes: -odik

Verb

haszontalankodik

  1. (intransitive, usually of a child) to be naughty / mischievous (to misbehave or act badly)
    Synonyms: rendetlenkedik, helytelenkedik
  2. (intransitive, archaic) to waste, squander (to spend effort or time on useless and unnecessary things)

Conjugation

Further reading

  • haszontalankodik 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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