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Hungarian
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: let‧tem
Etymology 1
From the le- stem of lesz (“to become”) + -ttem (first-person singular indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettem
- first-person singular indicative past of lesz (“I have become, I became”)
- Orvos lettem. ― I have become (or I became) a doctor.
- construed with volna: first-person singular conditional past of lesz (“I would have become, I had become”)
- Legszívesebben orvos lettem volna. ― I’d have preferably become a doctor or What I wanted to do best was become a doctor.
Etymology 2
From the le- suppletive stem of van (“to be”) + -ttem (first-person singular indicative past-tense personal suffix).
Verb
lettem
- Only used in lettem volna (first-person singular conditional past of van, “I would have been, I had been”).
- Ha metróval jövök (or jöttem volna), időben itt lettem volna. ― If I had taken the subway, I would have been here on time.
- Ha itt lettem volna, segítettem volna. ― If I had been here, I would have helped .
Etymology 3
lett (“a Latvian person”) + -em (“my”, first-person singular possessive suffix)
Noun
lettem
- (rare) first-person singular single-possession possessive of lett
Declension