kifut

Hungarian

Etymology

ki- +‎ fut

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkifut]
  • Hyphenation: ki‧fut
  • Rhymes: -ut

Verb

kifut

  1. (intransitive) to run out
    Synonyms: kiszalad, kirohan
  2. (intransitive, of a train or ship) to depart, sail out to sea
    Synonyms: elindul, vitorlát bont, (the latter two only for ships) tengerre száll
  3. (intransitive, of milk) to boil over
    Hypernyms: kiömlik, kicsordul
  4. (intransitive, slightly informal) to run out of something, to have something run out (with -ból/-ből for the thing)
    Synonym: (with the thing as its subject) kifogy
    Siessünk, mert kifutunk az időből! ― Let’s hurry up or we’ll run out of time!
  5. (with definite forms without any object, informal, dated) to suffice, to be just enough (with -ból/-ből for the resource)
    Synonyms: futja, kitelik

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • kifut 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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