Gazdag

Gazdag

Meaning:

rich

Pronunciation:

Memory hook:

GAS business made him rich as DAGobert (Duck).

Example sentences:

Ha nem is pénzben, de élményekben egyre gazdagabb vagyok.

I’m getting richer and richer not money-wise, but in experience.

[If not also money-in, but experiences-in richer-and-richer am-I.]

A gazdagság se nem gyógyít, se nem tesz boldoggá.

Wealth doesn’t make you neither healthy, nor happy.

[The wealth neither not cures, neither not makes happy-to.]

Related terms:

gazdagság – wealth

pénz – money

apró – change (money) (literally: “tiny”)

papírpénz – bill (money) (literally: “paper-money”)

szegény – poor

Not to be confused with:

gazda – farmer

gazdaság – economy

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