-nélek

Hungarian

Etymology

-né (conditional suffix) +‎ -lek (personal suffix)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [neːlɛk]
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Suffix

-nélek

  1. (personal suffix) Used to form the first-person singular present tense of transitive verbs with a second-person object (conditional mood, definite conjugation).
    Arra kérnélek, hogy csak itt dohányozz. ― I would like to ask you to smoke only here. (literally, “I would ask you to…”) (from kér (“to ask”))

Usage notes
  • (personal suffix) See harmonic variants in the table below.
Conditional 2nd-person-object personal endings
Person
(subject)

Verb ending

 Back vowel Front vowel 2nd-person object
(informal “you”)
  singular   plural
 én 
(“I”)		 most types -nálak -nélek téged titeket /
benneteket
two consonants
or long vowel + t		 -análak -enélek
When the 2nd-person object is addressed formally (önt/magát or their
plural), the definite suffixes are used. See also: indefinite suffixes.

See also
  • Category:Hungarian verb forms
  • Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
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