Meaning of tetszik | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to appeal, to be liked
   intransitive
2. Used to indicate politeness towards the elderly or sometimes towards customers.
   auxiliary
3. to seem, to appear (-nak/-nek)
   archaic, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Sok embernek tetszik az új változat.”

Many people like the new version.

“Tessék velem jönni.”

Come with me, if you please.

“Hogy tetszett mondani?”

I beg your pardon?

“Tetszettek volna forradalmat csinálni.”

You should have made a revolution! (I.e., that would have been the only way to attain a thorough lustration during the 1989 regime change. The past conditional indicates a reproachful retort to criticism that this transition happened too leniently.)

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