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Hungarian
Etymology
From lét (“existence”) + ige (“verb”).
Pronunciation
Noun
létige (plural létigék)
- (grammar) substantive verb (the verb expressing existence in different languages)
A mai olaszórán megtanuljuk az essere létige ragozását.- In today's Italian lesson, we will learn the conjugation of the substantive verb essere.
1844, Ferenc Kállay, Finn-magyar nyelv, Pest: printed by Landerer and Heckenast, section 2, page 44:A' létige vagyok hajlitása szám, idő és mód szerint mind a' syrjän, mind a' perm nyelvben csak nem ugyanaz a' magyarral.- With regards to person, tense and voice, the inflection of the substantive verb to be in Hungarian is almost the same as in both the Syrjänian and the Permic language.
Declension
Further reading
- létige in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- létige in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
- Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)
- létige in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’), Second, revised and expanded edition, Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2021, →ISBN. (See also the PDF of its 1st edition.)