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Hungarian
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: let‧tél
Etymology 1
From the le- stem of lesz (“to become”) + -ttél (second-person singular indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettél
- second-person singular indicative past of lesz (“you have become, you became”)
- Orvos lettél. ― You have become (or you became) a doctor.
- construed with volna: second-person singular conditional past of lesz (“you would have become, you had become”)
- Legszívesebben orvos lettél volna. ― You’d have preferably become a doctor or What you wanted to do best was become a doctor.
Etymology 2
From the le- suppletive stem of van (“to be”) + -ttél (second-person singular indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettél
- Only used in lettél volna (second-person singular conditional past of van, “you would have been, you had been”).
- Ha metróval jössz (or jöttél volna), időben itt lettél volna. ― If you had taken the subway, you would have been here on time.
- Ha itt lettél volna, segítettél volna. ― If you had been here, you would have helped .