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Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: sze‧ret‧te
- Rhymes: -tɛ
Etymology 1
szeret (“to love”) + -te (past-tense personal suffix)
Verb
szerette
- third-person singular indicative past definite of szeret
Etymology 2
szeret (“to love”) + -te (verbal-participle suffix)
Participle
szerette
- (rare, archaic) verbal participle of szeret: beloved
- Synonym: (when it has no subject on its own) szeretett
- 1835, János Nagyváthy, Magyar praktikus termesztő , 2nd ed., p. 292:
Ez a’ mód tapasztalásom szerint a’ Szú szerette fákat is tartósokká teszi.- This method, in my experience, makes even woodworm-loved trees durable.
Etymology 3
szeret (“to love”) + -te (noun-forming suffix)
Noun
szerette
- (with a possessive suffix, chiefly in the plural) his/her loved one(s)
- (with a possessive suffix, rare, folksy, archaic, construed with -ben or -ből) his/her/its love (the act of loving)
Declension
- The singular forms are not used except szerettében and szerettéből in the second noun sense.
- The possessive-suffixed singular forms are relatively rare.
Further reading
- (beloved; loved one; love): szerette 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