tekintet

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Hungarian

Etymology

tekint +‎ -et (noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: te‧kin‧tet
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

tekintet (countable and uncountable, plural tekintetek)

  1. look, glance, gaze (expression in/of the eyes)
    • 2003 (translation), John Grisham (author), Marcell Gellért (translator), A Painted House (translated A festett ház)
      Trot máskor kifejezéstelen tekintete riadt tanácstalanságról és végtelen szomorúságról tanúskodott.
      Trot’s normally vacant look had been replaced with one of great confusion and sadness.
      (Literally, “…revealed alarmed confusion and infinite sadness.”)
  2. aspect, respect, regard, relation, point of view
    Synonyms: szempont, vonatkozás
    E(bben a) tekintetben tévedett.S/he was wrong in this respect.
  3. (figuratively) respect, regard, consideration (given to something: -ra/-re; especially in the phrases tekintettel and tekintet nélkül)
    Tekintettel az érdeklődők nagy számára, egy nagyobb épületben rendezzük meg a kiállítást.
    Considering the large number of interested people, we will hold the exhibition in a larger building.
  4. (often with -vel) consideration, respect (the tendency to consider others; for or towards someone or something: -ra/-re)
    Légy tekintettel rám!Have consideration for me.
    Synonyms: figyelmesség, előzékenység, odafigyelés

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tekintet tekintetek
accusative tekintetet tekinteteket
dative tekintetnek tekinteteknek
instrumental tekintettel tekintetekkel
causal-final tekintetért tekintetekért
translative tekintetté tekintetekké
terminative tekintetig tekintetekig
essive-formal tekintetként tekintetekként
essive-modal
inessive tekintetben tekintetekben
superessive tekinteten tekinteteken
adessive tekintetnél tekinteteknél
illative tekintetbe tekintetekbe
sublative tekintetre tekintetekre
allative tekintethez tekintetekhez
elative tekintetből tekintetekből
delative tekintetről tekintetekről
ablative tekintettől tekintetektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
tekinteté tekinteteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
tekintetéi tekintetekéi
Possessive forms of tekintet
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tekintetem tekinteteim
2nd person sing. tekinteted tekinteteid
3rd person sing. tekintete tekintetei
1st person plural tekintetünk tekinteteink
2nd person plural tekintetetek tekinteteitek
3rd person plural tekintetük tekinteteik

Derived terms

Expressions

Further reading

  • tekintet 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