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Hungarian
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: let‧tünk
Etymology 1
From the le- stem of lesz (“to become”) + -ttünk (first-person plural indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettünk
- first-person plural indicative past of lesz (“we have become, we became”)
- Orvosok lettünk. ― We have become (or we became) doctors.
- construed with volna: first-person plural conditional past of lesz (“we would have become, we had become”)
- Legszívesebben orvosok lettünk volna. ― We’d have preferably become doctors or What we wanted to do best was become doctors.
Etymology 2
From the le- suppletive stem of van (“to be”) + -ttünk (first-person plural indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettünk
- Only used in lettünk volna (first-person plural conditional past of van, “we would have been, we had been”).
- Ha metróval jövünk (or jöttünk volna), időben itt lettünk volna. ― If we had taken the subway, we would have been here on time.
- Ha itt lettünk volna, segítettünk volna. ― If we had been here, we would have helped .
Etymology 3
lett (“a Latvian person”) + -ünk (“our”, first-person plural possessive suffix)
Noun
lettünk
- (rare) first-person plural single-possession possessive of lett
Declension