No. 476 in Hungarian
hosszabb
"Longer"
In a sentence
Az út hosszabb volt, mint gondoltam.
The road was longer than I thought.
Here, 'hosszabb' is used as a comparative form of the adjective 'hosszú', meaning 'long'.
Hosszabb könyveket szeret olvasni, mert több tartalmat talál bennük.
They like to read longer books because they find more content in them.
In this sentence, 'hosszabb' describes books that have greater length in terms of time to read or pages.
Néha a hosszabb út a gyorsabb, ha elkerülhetjük a dugókat.
Sometimes the longer route is the faster one if we can avoid traffic jams.
The word 'hosszabb' is used to compare routes based on their distance or duration.
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