Suffix
-et
- Used to form diminutives, loosely construed.
Suffix
-et m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ets)
- forms diminutives or endearing variants of nouns
- llaç (“knot, loop”) + -et → llacet (diminutive)
- formatge (“cheese”) + -et → formatget (diminutive)
- rei (“king”) + -et → reiet (diminutive)
- roda (“wheel”) + -et → rodet (“reel, spool”)
Suffix
-et (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -eta, masculine plural -ets, feminine plural -etes)
- forms diminutives or endearing variants of adjectives
- poc (“little”) + -et → poquet (“very little”)
Suffix
-et m (feminine -ette)
- suffix indicating diminution or affection
Etymology 1
From -e- + -t (causative suffix).
Suffix
-et
- (causative suffix) Added to a verb (or extremely rarely to a noun) to form a verb with a meaning of letting, making somebody do something or having something done to someone or something.
- Synonyms: -tat/-tet, -aszt/-eszt/-öszt, -jt/-ajt/-ejt, -ít, -dít, (obsolete in this sense) -t
- néz (“to look”) + -et → nézet (“to have something (like a body part) looked at (by a doctor) or (less commonly) to make someone look at something”)
- ég (“to burn”) (intransitive) + -et → éget (“to make something burn or (less commonly) to have someone burn something”)
- mér (“to measure”) + -et → méret (“to make someone measure something or to have something measured”)
Usage notes
- (causative suffix) Variants:
- -at is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words
- vár (“to wait”) + -at → várat (“to have someone wait”)
- -et is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words
- kér (“to ask for”) + -et → kéret (“to have someone ask(ed) for; to summon someone [by ordering a servant to fetch him/her]”)
- -tat is added to back-vowel words ending in a vowel + t
- tisztít (“to clean”) + -tat → tisztíttat (“to have someone clean or to have something cleaned”)
- -tet is added to front-vowel words ending in a vowel + t
- keres (“to look for”) + -tet → kerestet (“to have someone look(ed) for”)
Further reading
- Műveltető (faktitív) “Factitive” in Kiefer, Ferenc (ed.). Strukturális magyar nyelvtan 3. Morfológia (“A structural grammar of Hungarian, Vol. 3. Morphology”), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000.
Etymology 2
From -e- + -t (noun-forming suffix).
Suffix
-et (noun-forming suffix)
- Added to a verb to form a noun, expressing the result of the action or sometimes a more abstract relation (compare -ás/-és).
- Synonym: -mány/-mény
Usage notes
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -at is added to back-vowel verbs
- gondol (“to think”) + -at → gondolat (“a thought, an idea”)
- mond (“to say”) + -at → mondat (“sentence”)
- -et is added to front-vowel verbs
- dicsér (“to praise”) + -et → dicséret (“praise, commendation”)
- él (“to live”) + -et → élet (“life”)
- ítél (“to judge”) + -et → ítélet (“judgment”)
- mér (“to measure”) + -et → méret (“measurement, size”)
Etymology 3
More information Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions), ed ...
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From -e- (linking vowel) + -t (accusative suffix).
Suffix
-et (accusative case suffix)
- Unrounded front-vowel variant of -t. See details there.
- kert (“garden”) + -et → kertet (“garden”)
- Láttam egy gyönyörű kertet. ― I saw a beautiful garden.
Usage notes
- (accusative case suffix): It can be added to nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns. Whether a suffix-initial vowel (linking vowel) will be used is hard to predict and thus needs to be learned with each word. A rule of thumb, however, is that older and shorter words tend to incorporate a vowel, rather than simply use -t. Variants:
- -t is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-. Final -o in foreign words changes to -ó-.
- -ot is added to most back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -at is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -et is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -öt is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -∅ (zero form), optionally, after possessive suffixes, especially in the singular but sometimes also in the plural (and not infrequently after multiple-possession forms as well), except for the third-person singular (“his/her/its”, -ja/-je) as its omission would not reduce the number of syllables.
Elviszem a kabátom(at/∅), kabátod(at/∅); kabátunk(at/∅), kabátotok(at/∅), kabátjuk(at/∅); kabátjaim(at/∅) etc.- I’ll take my coat, your coat; our coat, [plural] your coat, their coat; my coats etc.
- It is also omitted usually from the accusative forms of first- and second-person singular personal pronouns (engem, téged (“me, you”)).
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Case |
Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú |
Front vowel |
unrounded e, é, i, í |
rounded ö, ő, ü, ű |
nominative |
— |
accusative |
-t |
-ot / -at |
-et |
-öt |
dative |
-nak |
-nek |
instrumental |
-val |
-vel |
causal-final |
-ért |
translative |
-vá |
-vé |
terminative |
-ig |
essive-formal |
-ként |
essive-modal |
-ul |
-ül |
inessive |
-ban |
-ben |
superessive |
-n |
-on |
-en |
-ön |
adessive |
-nál |
-nél |
illative |
-ba |
-be |
sublative |
-ra |
-re |
allative |
-hoz |
-hez |
-höz |
elative |
-ból |
-ből |
delative |
-ról |
-ről |
ablative |
-tól |
-től |
Note for all endings: Stem-final -a/-e changes to -á-/-é-, respectively, except -ként. alma — almában, but almaként zene ― zenében, but zeneként |
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Etymology 4
From -etik (passive-forming suffix), removing the ending.
Suffix
-et
- Combining form of -etik (passive-forming suffix) before all inflectional and derivational suffixes, except the dictionary form itself, the indefinite third-person singular present indicative
- küldetik (“to be sent”) → küldetés (“mission”).
Suffix
-et
- Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words, it has lost its original meaning.
Suffix
-et
- Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈ-eh(t)/
Suffix
-et
- Forms momentane verbs.
- njuikut (“to jump around”) + -et → njuiket (“to jump once”)
Usage notes
- This suffix triggers the strongest grade on a preceding stressed syllable.
Inflection
More information Contracted e-stem, no gradation, infinitive ...
Contracted e-stem, no gradation |
infinitive |
-et |
1st sing. present |
-en |
1st sing. past |
-ejin |
infinitive |
-et |
action noun |
-en |
present participle |
-ejeaddji |
action inessive |
-emin -eme |
past participle |
-en |
action elative |
-emis |
agent participle |
— |
action comitative |
-emiin |
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abessive |
-ekeahttá |
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present indicative |
past indicative |
imperative |
1st singular |
-en |
-ejin |
-ejēhkon |
2nd singular |
-et |
-ejit |
-e |
3rd singular |
-e |
-ii |
-ejēhkos |
1st dual |
-ejetne |
-iime |
-ejeadnu -ejeahkku |
2nd dual |
-ebeahtti |
-iide |
-ejeahkki |
3rd dual |
-eba |
-iiga |
-ejēhkoska |
1st plural |
-et |
-iimet |
-ejētnot -ejēhkot -ejeahkkot -ejeadnot |
2nd plural |
-ebēhtet |
-iidet |
-ejēhket |
3rd plural |
-ejit |
-ejedje |
-ejēhkoset |
connegative |
-e |
-en |
-e |
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conditional 1 |
conditional 2 |
potential |
1st singular |
-ešin -ešedjen |
-elin -eledjen |
-ežan |
2nd singular |
-ešit -ešedjet |
-elit -eledjet |
-ežat |
3rd singular |
-ešii |
-elii |
-eža -eš |
1st dual |
-ešeimme |
-eleimme |
-ežetne |
2nd dual |
-ešeidde |
-eleidde |
-ežeahppi |
3rd dual |
-ešeigga |
-eleigga |
-ežeaba |
1st plural |
-ešeimmet |
-eleimmet |
-ežit -ežat |
2nd plural |
-ešeiddet |
-eleiddet |
-ežēhpet |
3rd plural |
-eše -ešedje |
-ele -eledje |
-ežit |
connegative |
-eše |
-ele |
-eš |
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Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Norse -it.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ə/
- Reduced final -e is lost before the suffix; both forms are then pronounced the same (e.g., hode and hodet).
Suffix
-et
- Forms the definite singular of neuter nouns.
- det (article, pronoun; t also silent)
- -t (adjective suffix; t pronounced)
Etymology 2
Derived from Danish -et (past participle suffix), generalised to the past tense (Danish -ede) through influence of native Norwegian dialects.
Suffix
-et
- Forms the past tense and past participle of class-1 weak verbs.
- Synonym: -a
Noun
-et (definite singular and plural -ete)
- (pre-2012) alternative form of -ete
Suffix
-et n
- suffix forming nouns from verbs, adjectives, and other nouns (sometimes causes i-mutation)
- þēowot ― service, religious service, ministry
- grafet ― trench
- bærnet ― a burning, combustion, cauterizing
- emnet ― level ground, leveling
- þiccet ― thicket
- rēwet ― rowing; ship, row-boat
- rȳmet ― space, clearance, extension
- swefet, sweofot ― sleep; sleeping
- þyrnet ― thicket of thorns, thorny place
Declension
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Declension of -et (strong a-stem)
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin -ātus.
Suffix
-et
- (12th century and before) Alternative form of -é (suffix used to form past participles of regular -er verbs)
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin -ētum. Cognate with Italian -eto, French -aie.
Suffix
-et n (plural -eturi or -ete)
- Used with plant or tree names to form names of orchards, woods, forests, or groves.
- brad (“fir tree”) → brădet (“fir-tree forest”)
- ulm (“elm”) → ulmet (“elm forest”)
- fag (“beech”) → făget (“beech forest”)
Declension
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singular |
plural |
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indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
nominative/accusative |
(un) -et |
-etul |
(niște) -eturi |
-eturile |
genitive/dative |
(unui) -et |
-etului |
(unor) -eturi |
-eturilor |
vocative |
-etule |
-eturilor |
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singular |
plural |
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indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
nominative/accusative |
(un) -et |
-etul |
(niște) -ete |
-etele |
genitive/dative |
(unui) -et |
-etului |
(unor) -ete |
-etelor |
vocative |
-etule |
-etelor |
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Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin -itus. No longer productive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /et/ (stressed on the antepenultimate)
Suffix
-et n (plural -ete)
- (unproductive) Used to form nouns derived from the action of some verbs.
- zâmbi (“to smile”) → zâmbet (“a smile”)
- zbiera (“to scream”) → zbieret (“a scream”)
Declension
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singular |
plural |
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indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
nominative/accusative |
(un) -et |
-etul |
(niște) -ete |
-etele |
genitive/dative |
(unui) -et |
-etului |
(unor) -ete |
-etelor |
vocative |
-etule |
-etelor |
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