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"text": "keres (“to look for”) → megkeres (“to locate, look for it until it is found”)"
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"text": "talál (“to find accidentally, to come across”) → megtalál (“to find (after purposefully searching)”)"
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"text": "néz (“to look at, for an indefinite time, as an ongoing activity”) → megnéz (“to give it a [thorough] look, assess its quality, form an opinion, etc.”)"
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"text": "hallgat (“to listen”, or: “to keep quiet”) → meghallgat (“to listen till the end attentively and comprehend, give it some thought”)"
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"text": "vár (“to wait”) → megvár (“to wait until something happens, someone arrives or gets ready”)"
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"text": "hízik (“to get fatter [than before]”) → meghízik (“to get fat”) (compare also elhízik (“to get obese”))"
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"text": "hosszabbít (“to make longer, lengthen”) → meghosszabbít (“to make it [sufficiently] long”)"
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"text": "hízik (“to get fatter [than before]”) → meghízik (“to get fat”) (compare also elhízik (“to get obese”))"
},
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"text": "hosszabbít (“to make longer, lengthen”) → meghosszabbít (“to make it [sufficiently] long”)"
}
],
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"A verbal prefix with the following meanings:",
"It adds a perfective aspect to the verb in all tenses (a definite endpoint when the action can be considered completed).",
"Not infrequently it can be rendered with the positive degree of an adjective rather than the comparative, expressing an absolute measure instead of a relative one"
],
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"A verbal prefix with the following meanings:",
"It adds a perfective aspect to the verb in all tenses (a definite endpoint when the action can be considered completed).",
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"text": "szeret (“to love”) → megszeret (“to come to like, to become attached to, to become fond of”)"
},
{
"text": "lát (“to see”) → meglát (“to catch sight of”)"
},
{
"text": "tud (“to know”) → megtud (“to learn, find out”)"
}
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"It expresses the beginning of an action (inchoative aspect)."
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},
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}
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"It may express a half-perfective aspect"
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"It may express a half-perfective aspect:"
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}
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"A verbal prefix with the following meanings:",
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