tanít

== Hungarian == === Etymology === From Proto-Uralic *tuna- (“to get used to, to learn”) + -ít (causative suffix). Cognates include Moksha and Erzya тонадомс (tonadoms, “to get used to, to learn”), and Eastern Mari туныкташ (tunyktaš, “to teach”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈtɒniːt] Hyphenation: ta‧nít Rhymes: -iːt === Verb === tanít (transitive) to teach (to pass on knowledge to) Perfective: megtanít Synonym: oktat Coordinate term: tanul 1937 April 11, Attila József, Születésnapomra (“For My Birthday”), translated by Péter Zollman: (transitive) to teach (to cause to learn or understand) (intransitive) to teach (to act as a teacher) ==== Usage notes ==== In the sense ’to pass on knowledge to’, the most common argument structure is the accusative for the subject (the field of teaching) and the dative (-nak/-nek) for the recipients (the people being instructed). However, the subject (the field of teaching) can also take -ra/-re if the recipients are specified with the accusative: Angolt tanítok a gyerekeknek ― I teach the children English. → (alternative translation) I teach English to the children. Angolra tanítom a gyerekeket. ― I teach the children English. → (alternative translation) I teach the children about English. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== (With verbal prefixes): ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === tanít 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.