perce

perce (third-person singular simple present perces, present participle percing, simple past and past participle perced)

1. Obsolete form of pierce.

• CREEP, creep, crepe, crêpe

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perce

1. inflection of percer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• crêpe

perc +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

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• Hyphenation: per‧ce

perce

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of perc

   Coordinate terms: ideje, másodperce, órája, napja, hete, hónapja, éve, évtizede, évszázada, évezrede

The above possessive forms of time units often express the time past: with a durative verb (often in the present-tense), an action or event that has (had, will have) been going on for a given time until the given moment, or with an instantaneous verb (in the past tense), an action or event that happened a certain time ago or before. For example:

Fél órája várom a vonatot. ― I have been waiting for the train for half an hour.

Fél órája vártam a vonatot. ― I had been waiting for the train for half an hour (or: I waited, I was waiting for the train half an hour ago).

Fél órája (= fél órával ezelőtt) érkeztem meg. ― I arrived half an hour ago.

Fél órája (= fél órával előtte/​korábban/​azelőtt) érkeztem meg. ― I (had) arrived half an hour before.

Of course, the usual possessive sense is also possible in different types of sentences:

Fél órája volt még a vizsgáig. ― He had half an hour left until the exam.

(The equivalent French phrase il y a is also constructed with an apparent possessive, although this Hungarian possessive can also correspond to depuis.) See also the entries of the possessive suffixes: -a/-e/-ja/-je for more examples.

From Old French percier. More at English pierce.

perce (third-person singular simple present perceth, present participle percende, percynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle perced)

1. pierce
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 1-2.

     Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
     The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: pierce