Breakdown of Hazafelé a sarkon lévő boltban vásárolok kenyeret.
lenni
to be
kenyér
the bread
-on
on
sarok
the corner
Questions & Answers about Hazafelé a sarkon lévő boltban vásárolok kenyeret.
What does hazafelé literally mean, and how is it different from just haza?
Haza on its own means “(to) home”, a direction: Megyek haza. – “I’m going home.”
Hazafelé is built from:
- haza = (to) home
- -felé = towards
So hazafelé literally means “towards home” or “homewards”, and in practice it often has the sense “on the way home”.
In this sentence hazafelé functions as an adverbial phrase of time/route: it tells us when/along what route the action happens: “On the way home, …”
You could say:
- Hazafelé vásárolok. – “I shop on the way home.”
But you wouldn’t normally replace hazafelé with plain haza in this position; haza is used more directly with verbs of motion (megyek haza, jövök haza, viszek valamit haza, etc.).
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