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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From -e- (linking vowel) + -tt (past-participle and past-tense suffix).
Suffix
-ett
- past-tense and past-participle suffix (homonymous form in the vast majority of verbs):
- (past-tense suffix) -ed, -t (forms the past tense of a verb)
- hegeszt (“to weld”) → Fémcsöveket hegesztett. ― He welded some metal tubing.
- (past-participle suffix) -ed, -t (forms the past participle of a verb)
- hegeszt (“to weld”) → a hegesztett fém ― the welded metal
Usage notes
- (past-participle and past-tense suffix) Variants:
- -t is added to monosyllabic verbs ending in j, l, ly, n, ny, r (fáj, szel, fon, huny, sír) and to many bisyllabic verbs ending in -ad/-ed (akad, ered)
- -tt is added to verbs ending in a vowel (sző, nő, fő, lő, ró, rí)
- -ott is added to back-vowel verbs
- -ett is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs
- -ött is added to rounded front-vowel verbs
- (past-participle suffix) This form is the only option attributively. Predicatively, however, a construction of the existential verb van (or its negative form nincs) and the adverbial participle (with -va/-ve) is preferable, especially when speaking of the result achieved, although the suffix -t/-ott/-ett/-ött occurs predicatively as well, disputed as it may be.
Declension
For the past-participle suffix only:
Etymology 2
From -e- (linking vowel) + -tt (locative suffix).
Suffix
-ett
- (locative suffix, chiefly archaic) in, at (forms the locative case)
- Pécs (“a Hungarian city”) → Pécsett (“in Pécs”)
Usage notes
- (locative suffix) It is used only in a few city/town names along with the inessive case or superessive case. It can also be observed in a few local adverbs and postpositions. It is no longer productive. Variants:
- -t
- Kaposvárt, Kolozsvárt (also with -ott), (mi)helyt, közt, gyanánt, mint, képest, tájt
- -tt is added to words ending in a vowel
- itt, ott, hanyatt, alatt, miatt, előtt
- -ott is added to back-vowel words
- Kaposvárott (also with -t), Vácott, Székesfehérvárott, Fehérvárott, Kapuvárott, (outside present-day Hungary)
Érsekújvárott, Gyulafehérvárott, Kolozsvárott (also with -t), Temesvárott, (in Russia) Szentpétervárott, Pétervárott
- -ett is added to unrounded front-vowel words
- Pécsett, felett, mellett, végett, helyett
- -ött is added to rounded front-vowel words
- Győrött, Diósgyőrött, fölött, mögött, között
- -utt is added to some back-vowel words
- másutt
- -ütt is added to some unrounded front-vowel words
- mindenütt, együtt, egyebütt, helyütt
See also