Meaning of kertel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to hedge (to evade the truth deliberately when answering questions)
   intransitive
2. to fence (to build a fence around the garden) as in this nursery rhyme https://web.archive.org/web/20081221013703/http://users.tkk.fi/~aszucs/nyito/Bobita/nagyok_versei.html#En_kis
   archaic, dialectal, transitive
3. second-person singular indicative past indefinite of kér
   form-of, indefinite, indicative, past, second-person, singular

Equivalents

Examples

“Ne kertelj, mondd meg az igazat!”

Don’t hedge, tell the truth!

“Én kis kertet kerteltem, bazsarózsát ültettem.”

“Szél, szél fújdogálja, eső, eső veregeti, hú!”

Wind, wind keeps blowing it gently, rain, rain keeps falling on it gently, huh!

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