szenved

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Hungarian

Etymology

From an otherwise unattested stem of unknown origin + -ed (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

szenved

  1. (intransitive) to suffer (in general from something: -tól/-től, from a disease: -ban/-ben)
  2. (transitive) to sustain, undergo (some specified injury, accident, damage, loss, defeat, disadvantage, persecution etc.)

Conjugation

If it is used transitively, its object is usually not definite, so the conjugation of the verb is normally indefinite too.

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. ^ szenved in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • szenved 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