tesz

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *teke-. Cognates include Finnish tehdä, Karelian tehtä and Estonian tegema.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb

tesz

  1. (transitive) to do (optionally with -val/-vel for the target person or object)
    Perfective: megtesz
    Synonyms: csinál, megcsinál, cselekszik, végez, elvégez
    Tedd azt, amit mondok!Do what I say!
    Ezt nem teheted velem.You can’t do this to me.
  2. (transitive) to place, to put (with lative suffixes)
    Synonyms: helyez, pakol, rak
  3. (transitive) to make (to cause to be; with the result in -vá/-vé)
    Middle-voice counterpart: válik
    elérhetővé teszto make accessible
  4. (intransitive) to see to it, to ensure (followed by the adverb róla)
    Majd teszek róla, hogy meggondolja magát.I'll see to it that he changes his mind.
  5. (intransitive, construed with -het) to (be able to) help it, to be the cause of, to be to blame (potential form with -ról/-ről or followed by the adverb róla)
    Nem tehetek róla, hogy beteg vagyok.I can’t help it if I’m sick.
    Erről az egészről te tehetsz.You are to blame for all of this.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Compound words

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions: phrases
Expressions: proverbs

See also

The seven sz-v stem verbs
  • eszik (“to eat”)
  • iszik (“to drink”)
  • hisz (“to believe, think”)
  • visz (“to take, carry”)
  • lesz (“to become; will be”)

  • tesz (“to do; to put”)
  • vesz (“to take, get, grab, buy”)
Indicative
1st-p. sg.
eszemiszom,
hiszekviszek, leszekteszekveszek
Infinitive enni, inni, hinni, vinni, lenni, tenni, venni Pres. part. evő, ivó, hí, vivő, lé/levő, tevő, vevő
Past
1st p. sg.
ettem, ittam, hittem, vittem,
lettem, tettem, vettem
Verbal
nouns
evésivás(hivés,) vivés,
levéstevésvevés
Imperative
1st-p. sg.
egyekigyakhiggyekvigyek, legyektegyekvegyek Past 3rd sg. evett, ivott, hitt, vitt, lett, tett, vett Other
nouns
ételitalhitelvitel (lét,) tételvétel
(obs./archaic  őn, —, hűn, vín, lőn, tőn, vőn) lénytényvény

References

  1. ^ Entry #1044 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ tesz 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

  • tesz 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