-tad

See also: tad, Tad, TAd, täd, tað, and TA'd

Hungarian

Etymology

-t (past tense suffix) +‎ -ad (second-person singular suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɒd]

Suffix

-tad

1. (past tense suffix) Used to form the second-person singular past tense of verbs (definite conjugations).

   olvas (“to read”) → olvastad (“you read, you have read, you had read”)

Usage notes

• (past-tense suffix) Variants:

  -tad is added to most back-vowel verbs

  -ted is added to most front-vowel verbs

  -ttad is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, fú, ó, ró, rí, szí)

  -tted is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (lő, nyű, sző)

  -ottad is added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, nyit, except lát)

  -etted is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)

  -ötted 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)

See also

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes