megértet

megért (“to understand”) +‎ -et (causative suffix)

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: meg‧ér‧tet
• Rhymes: -ɛt

megértet

1. (transitive) causative of megért: to make someone understand (something) or make (something) understood, to clarify, to illuminate, to bring home (the person or other creature supposed to understand something is expressed with -val/-vel)
   • 1974, Sándor Kányádi, Játszva magyarul‎:

     aki megért / s megértet / egy népet / megéltet

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (reflexively, as megérteti magát, with definite conjugation) to make oneself understood (e.g. in a foreign language)

The past-tense forms of this verb are identical with the past-tense forms of megért (“to understand”), with the exception of the 3rd person singular indefinite, so one should always consider the possible homonyms. Normally the argument (e.g. a form of -val/-vel for the first sense or the specification of the language in the second) will make the meaning clear.

• megértet 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