-ettetek
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɛtːɛtɛk]
Suffix
-ettetek
- (past tense suffix) Used to form the second-person plural past tense of verbs (indefinite conjugations).
- szerkeszt (“to edit”) → szerkesztettetek (“you all (have/had) edited”)
- vetít (“to project”) → vetítettetek (“you all (have/had) projected”)
- vet (“to sow”) → vetettetek (“you all (have/had) sowed/sown”)
Usage notes
- (past-tense suffix) Variants:
- -tatok is added to most back-vowel verbs
- -tetek is added to most front-vowel verbs
- -ttatok is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, fú, ó, ró, rí, szí)
- -ttetek is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (fő, jő, lő, nő, nyű, sző)
- -ottatok is added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, hat, jut, nyit, except lát)
- -ettetek is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)
- -öttetek is added to rounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (köt, süt, üt)
Suffix
-ettetek
Usage notes
Homonymy exists between regular and causative past tense forms of consonant + t types of front-vowel verbs, in all the six persons, both with definite and indefinite endings, except for the third-person singular indefinite form (-ettem, -ettél, –, -ettünk, -ettetek, -ettek; -ettem, -etted, -ette, -ettük, -ettétek, -ették; -ettelek). On the other hand, other types of front-vowel verbs as well as back-vowel verbs take different forms for the regular and the causative past tense (e.g. -ottam and -attam, e.g. ugrottam and ugrattam among similar back-vowel verbs, other front-vowel verb types having clearly distinct forms: kértem vs. kérettem, kerestem vs. kerestettem). However, the -val/-vel argument is compulsory with the causative sense, so it makes the distinction easier (e.g. megértettem velük a különbséget – “I made them understand the difference”).
See also
- Category:Hungarian verb forms
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes