négyszemközt
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Etymology
From négy (“four”) + szem (“eye”) + közt (“between”), literally “between four eyes”. Compare French entre quatre yeux, German unter vier Augen, Italian a quattr'occhi, Polish w cztery oczy, Czech mezi čtyřma očima.
Pronunciation
Adverb
négyszemközt (not comparable)
- in private, in confidence, one-to-one, face-to-face (occurring privately with the involvement of two people)
- Synonyms: bizalmasan, titkosan
Derived terms
- négyszemközti
- négyszemközt szólva
See also
- köztünk szólva
Further reading
- négyszemközt 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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