-het

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See also: het, hét, hèt, hết, and нет

Albanian

Etymology

  • -net — dialectal, Tosk

Etymology

3rd pers. sg. passive marker; -h (added when verb ends with a vowel; to avoid palatalisation) + et. See Albanian -et for more.

Suffix

-het n

  1. Forms active verbs into mediopassive verbs. Indicating 3rd person singular, indicative, present: it is; (it) -s; (it) is -ing/-n/-ed/-t
    attached on active verbs ending with vowels (adding -h to avoid palatalisation):
    lë (“it lets, leaves”) + -het → lihet (it is left)
    lihet vetëm
    it is left alone

See also

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Suffix

-het

  1. (potential suffix, added to verbs):
    ‎felejt (“to forget”) + ‎-het → ‎felejthet (“may forget, can forget”)
    1. (expressing possibility) may (having the potential to do or be something)
      A hosszan magára hagyott kutya ugathat, nyüszíthet, bepisilhet vagy rombolhat. ― A dog left alone for a long time may bark, whimper, wet itself, or destroy things.
      Synonym: lehet​/​meglehet​/​előfordulhat​/​megtörténhet​/​megeshet, hogy…
    2. (expressing permission) may, can, being permitted, allowed, or enabled to
      Ebbe a házba bemehet a kutya. ― The dog is allowed to enter this house.
      Ezt én nem írhatom alá helyetted. ― I cannot (= am not allowed to) sign it instead of you.
      Synonym: (with the logical subject in the dative) szabad
    3. (expressing opportunity) can
      Ennél a forrásnál ihatunk vizet és meguzsonnázhatunk. ― At this spring we can drink water and have a snack.
      Synonym: (the argument supplied with -ra/-re or in the infinitive) módja/lehetősége van

Usage notes

  • (potential suffix) Variants:
    -hat is added to back-vowel verbs
    -het is added to front-vowel verbs
  • To express can in the sense “to be able to”, see tud.

Derived terms

Hungarian verbs suffixed with -het

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German -hēt, -heit, from Old Saxon -hēd, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“manner, way; state”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keyt-, *(s)keydʰ- (“clear, bright, shining”).

Cognate with Danish -hed, Swedish -het, German -heit, Dutch -heid and English -hood.

Suffix

-het m or f

  1. Suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness -ity.
    kjølig - kjølighet (cool - coolness)

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms suffixed with -het

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish -het, which is borrowed from Middle Low German -heit, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz. Cognate with Danish -hed, German -heit, Dutch -heid, English -hood.[1]

Pronunciation

Suffix

-het c

  1. Productive suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness, -ity
    nödvändig - nödvändighet (necessary - necessity)

Derived terms

Swedish terms suffixed with -het

References

  1. ^ -het in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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