tör

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtør]

tör

1. (transitive) to break
2. (intransitive) to strive for something (-ra/-re)
   • 1832 (original), 1942 (translation), Goethe, Faust, translation by Zoltán Jékely:

     Kicsoda vagy tehát? / Az erő része, mely / örökké rosszra tör, s örökké jót mível.

     Who art thou, then? / Part of that Power, not understood, / Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

• This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik), the transitive forms if one of them is transitive (if either, it is the one without -ik) as well as an optional first-person singular indicative present indefinite form of the -ik verb. However, the meaning of these pairs is often unrelated. Examples include bán–bánik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik, ér–érik, nyúl–nyúlik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik and tör–törik (the latter two pairs with related meanings; tör[ik] along with their verbal prefixes). Therefore one may well need to check the context and the verb arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

• tördel
• törekedik
• törékeny
• törekszik
• törés
• töretlen
• törhetetlen
• törhető
• törik
• törmelék
• törődik
• töröl
• tör-zúz
• úttörő

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• borsot tör az orra alá
• lényegre törő
• rosszban töri a fejét
• töri a fejét