Félreértés

OHWAD-Basic words

 

Félreértés

 

Meaning:

misunderstanding

 

Example sentences:

A tegnapi találkozó helyszíne félreértés volt.

The yesterday-ish meeting location-its misunderstanding was.

The location of yesterday’s meeting was a misunderstanding.

 

Egy félreértés miatt veszekedtünk.

A misunderstanding because-of fought-we.

We fought due to a misunderstanding.

 

Related terms:

félre – aside

félreért – to misunderstand

félreérthető – misunderstandable

ért – to understand

felfogás – conception, notion

jelentés – meaning

pontatlan – vague, inaccurate

pontos – accurate

 

Pronunciation of today’s word:

félreértés – misunderstanding

 

Pronunciation of the example sentences:

A tegnapi találkozó helyszíne félreértés volt.

The yesterday-ish meeting location-its misunderstanding was.

The location of yesterday’s meeting was a misunderstanding.

 

Egy félreértés miatt veszekedtünk.

A misunderstanding because-of fought-we.

We fought due to a misunderstanding.

 

Pronunciation of the related terms:

félre – aside

 

félreért – to misunderstand

 

félreérthető – misunderstandable

 

ért – to understand

 

felfogás – conception, notion

 

jelentés – meaning

 

pontatlan – vague, inaccurate

 

pontos – accurate

 

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4 replies
  1. Bastette says:

    I analyzed the word as “understand onto half.” 🙂 I was thinking “understanding half of what was said or going on.” I didn’t know there was a word “félre,” meaning “aside.”

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  2. Richa Verma says:

    Hello!

    It would like to congratulate you on your success and thank you for making such amazing easy and understandable material for an expat like me.
    I have recently enrolled myself with your website and anxiously wait every day for your email.
    It so simple for a lay-man to understand all by themselves.
    But, probably, it’s me only who is facing this problem. As, i tried from all modes of electronic gadgets like phone, ipad, laptop and none of them are able to help me with the listening part.
    Ad, i feel that’s as important and reading the meaning and sentence of the word.
    Though, my Hungarian boyfriend is helping with the pronunciation, but I ought to wait for him to be available to my help.

    Oh yes, i would even like to add another issue that, probably it can be only who might be so curious or logical.
    It would be helpful and more clear, if you may even add some logics to the pronunciation of the word or the sentence formation.
    For eg, my boyfriend was teaching me to pronounce the word Felretes, where when pronounced, the ‘l’ gets silent and we pronounce it as with ‘double r’, but he wasn’t able to give the logic to it. Probably, being the native, it comes automatically into you and you don’t tend to learn the logics.

    In short, it’s just a suggestion, if you can add these little logics for over curious expat like me.
    And yes, about the listening part too, if it’s me only who is facing the issue or are other’s too facing the same

    Thank you!
    Looking forward to your such creative and easy Hungarian lessons.

    Have a wonder Sunday !

    Richa Verma

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    • catchbudapest says:

      Szia Richa,

      thank you so much for your lovely feedback, it means a lot to us and we’re so happy you like our daily words and material!!

      While we know there are lots of possibilities to expand OHWAD even further, we would like to keep the daily free emails concentrated and expand on these topics in our courses, the Smart Hungarian Audio Course and our upcoming short story-based course.

      When it comes to the “logic” of pronunciation: A rule of thumb is that the reason is spoken assimilation – it’s just easier on our mouths to say “férreértés” than “féLreértés”. It’s not a conscious decision but rather a matter of practicability.

      We address this in our free video- and email course – The Fast Lane to Understand Real-Life, Spoken Hungarian and you can find it here: https://www.catchbudapest.com/free-hungarian-course/

      Hope this helps and please write us an email if you have any questions! 🙂

      All the best,
      Juli & Flo

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