rettent

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ret‧tent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

retten (“to shrink back, recoil”) +‎ -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)

rettent

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of retten

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

• rettent (…) el, el … rettent ― elrettent ― elretten
• rettent (…) meg, meg … rettent ― megrettent ― megretten
• and some more, see its derivatives with verbal prefixes.

rettent

1. past participle of retten

retten (“to shrink back, recoil”) +‎ -t (causative verb-forming suffix)

rettent

1. (transitive, literary) to deter (to prevent or discourage someone from doing something)

   Synonyms: ijeszt, rémít, riaszt

   • 1936, Attila József, Nagyon fáj (It Hurts So Much), translated by Peter Zollman,^[1] László Fórizs (Q1005876), and Tamás Kabdebó (Q1103115)

     Nem szégyenlem, ha kitalálom, // hisz kitaszit / a világ így is olyat, akit / kábít a nap, rettent az álom.

     It’s not a shame to guess this right, // but I’m aware / that we are hated everywhere / who dream by day and fret at night.

     (literally, “…who is dazed by the Sun and terrified by dreams.”)

     I’m not ashamed that I found it out. // Because who is / scared by his dreams dazed by the sun / will be driven out in any case.

     No shame on me to find just only one // solution, since / an outcast I am / frightened by dreams and dazed by the sun.

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

• rettent (…) el, el … rettent ― elrettent
• rettent (…) fel, fel … rettent ― felrettent
• rettent (…) meg, meg … rettent ― megrettent
• rettent (…) vissza, vissza … rettent ― visszarettent

• rettent 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
• Results for both senses of “rettent” among the examples in A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára