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 Translation for 'to speak' from English to Hungarian
VERB   to speak | spoke / [archaic] spake | spoken
speaking | speaks / [archaic] speaketh
SYNO to address | to mouth | to speak | ...
beszélto speak
5
szólto speak
2
beszélni [infin.]to speak
úgymond {adv}so to speak
útiszó
Beszél angolul?
Do you speak English? [formal]
Beszélsz angolul?Do you speak English? [informal]
orrhangon beszélto speak through one's nose
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Usage Examples English
  • The most popular Arab account holds that the word "Arab" came from an eponymous father named Ya'rub, who was supposedly the first to speak Arabic.
  • There are also meetings with or without a topic that allow participants to speak up or "share".
  • Baldwin was involved in a significant free speech victory of the 1920s after he was arrested for attempting to speak at a rally of striking mill workers in New Jersey.
  • ... Ford administration staffers Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld advocated on Solzhenitsyn's behalf for him to speak directly to President Gerald Ford about the Soviet threat), prior to and alongside the tougher foreign policy pursued by US President Ronald Reagan.
  • Claudius made references to her in his speeches: "my daughter and foster child, born and bred, in my lap, so to speak".

  • As a distinguished writer sympathizing with the cause of communism, he was invited to speak at Maxim Gorky's funeral and to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of Writers.
  • He encouraged Ginsberg not to emulate the old masters, but to speak with his own voice and the voice of the common American.
  • After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as 'sociocultural' anthropology.
  • 8% of residents reported being able to speak and understand the Scots language.
  • In many other jurisdictions, it is for the defense lawyer to mitigate on their client's behalf, and the defendant rarely has the opportunity to speak.

  • On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that in February 1968 Capp had made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama.
  • The words "feminist" and "feminism" were not coined until the 1890s, and there was no feminist movement to speak of during Wollstonecraft's lifetime.
  • It is common, but incorrect, to speak of peerage dignities which are dormant (i.e. unclaimed) as being in abeyance.
  • The lecturer that followed Alzheimer was to speak on the topic of "compulsive masturbation", which the audience of 88 individuals was so eagerly awaiting that they sent Alzheimer away without any questions or comments on his discovery of the pathology of a type of senile dementia.
  • During the Arkansas political conflict known as the Brooks-Baxter War, Pike was one of the lawyers to speak on behalf of Elisha Baxter.

  • Thus, Abraham Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then-current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.
  • For example, some virtual assistants are programmed to speak conversationally or even to banter humorously; it makes them appear more sensitive to the emotional dynamics of human interaction, or to otherwise facilitate human–computer interaction.
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