What does 'közbevág' mean in Hungarian?
Mi bosszant fel, ha beszélgetünk?
B1 Hungarian listening practice · Hungarian · Curated for intermediate learners
Közbevág is a Hungarian compound verb built from közbe (in between) + vág (to cut). It means to interrupt, but the imagery is sharper than the English version: you’re slicing into someone else’s sentence with your own. Hungarian builds many verbs this way: félbeszakít (cut in half = stop), kimegy (out-go = exit), belevág (cut into = launch into).
In this clip, a Hungarian speaker names what annoys him: someone asks him a question and then közbevág before he can finish his answer. « Felteszem nekem egy kérdést [...] és nem várja meg, hogy válaszoljak, hanem közbevág » (they ask me a question [...] and don’t wait for my answer, they cut in). « Ez nagyon tud bosszantani » (that can really annoy me).
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- ▸In Hungarian talk shows and panel TV like Frizbi Hajdú Péterrel on TV2 and Az Este on MTVA where guests közbevágnak and hosts wave them back
- ▸On Hungarian podcasts and YouTube channels like Partizán and Tilos Rádió on Spotify when hosts cut each other off mid-sentence for laughs
- ▸In Hungarian language-learning content on Daily Hungarian and HungarianPod101 where teachers walk through compound verbs (közbevág, félbeszakít, kimegy)
- ▸In Hungarian everyday speech and family arguments where Ne vágj közbe! (don’t cut in!) is one of the first parent-to-child commands