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Hungarian
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: let‧tek
Etymology 1
From the le- stem of lesz (“to become”) + -ttek (third-person plural indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettek
- third-person plural indicative past of lesz (“they have become, they became”)
- Orvosok lettek. ― They have become (or they became) doctors.
- construed with volna: third-person plural conditional past of lesz (“they would have become, they had become”)
- Legszívesebben orvosok lettek volna. ― They’d have preferably become doctors or What they wanted to do best was become doctors.
Etymology 2
From the le- suppletive stem of van (“to be”) + -ttek (third-person plural indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettek
- Only used in lettek volna (third-person plural conditional past of van, “they would have been, they had been”).
- Ha metróval jönnek (or jöttek volna), időben itt lettek volna. ― If they had taken the subway, they would have been here on time.
- Ha itt lettek volna, segítettek volna. ― If they had been here, they would have helped .
Etymology 3
lett (“Latvian ”) + -ek (plural suffix)
Adjective
lettek
- nominative plural of lett
Noun
lettek
- nominative plural of lett