-öttetek
Hungarian
Etymology
-ött (past tense suffix) + -etek (second-person plural suffix)
Pronunciation
Suffix
-öttetek
- (past tense suffix) Used to form the second-person plural past tense of verbs (indefinite conjugations).
- köszönt (“to greet”) → köszöntöttetek (“you all (have/had) greeted”)
- süt (“to bake”) → sütöttetek (“you all (have/had) baked”)
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)