-tte

From Proto-Finnic *-ktë, from *-k (marker for the present tense) + *-të (etymologically identical to te, the second-person plural personal pronoun). In the past tense, there was originally -i- in place of -k- (*-itë) but the present suffix has been generalized to all tenses and moods.

-tte

1. (personal) Forms the second-person plural of verbs.

   luette (plural or polite) ― you read

• Suffixed to the same stem that the first-person singular has, both in the present and the past tense, and in indicative, conditional and potential mood.

• TET, tet

• IPA^(key):

-tte

2. (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular past tense of verbs (definite conjugation).

   ‎sző (“to weave”) + ‎-tte → ‎szőtte (“he/she wove, he/she has/had woven it”)

4. (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -és), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-e), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.

   ‎jön (“to come”) + ‎-tte → ‎jötte (“his/her/its coming”)

• (past-tense and verbal-participle suffix) Variants:

  -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs

  -te is added to most front-vowel verbs

  -tta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, rí, szí; ó, ró; fú)

  -tte is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (lő, nő, sző; nyű)

  -otta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, nyit, except lát)

  -ette is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)

  -ötte is added to rounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (köt, süt, üt)

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs

  -te is added to most front-vowel verbs

  -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally jő)

  -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)

  -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• Károly, Sándor. Az istenadta-féle szerkezetek személyragos tagjának szófaji jellegéről (“On the part of speech of the personal-suffixed elements of istenadta -like structures”). In: Nyelvtudományi Közlemények (“Linguistic Publications”), vol. 59 (1957), pp. 130–150.
• Simonyi, Zsigmond. Isten-adta (“God-given”). In: Magyar Nyelvőr (“Hungarian Language Guardian”), vol. XXXVI (1907), pp. 16–35 in the offprint (issue 5, May 15 in the original, pp. 193–205, 264–271).

-tte

1. locative singular of -tta