heti

Finnish

Alternative forms

• het (dialectal)

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a variant of obsolete häti (1823) (analyzable as hätä (“emergency”) +‎ -i). Cognate with Ingrian hetin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheti(ˣ)/, [ˈhe̞t̪i(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eti
• Syllabification^(key): he‧ti
• Hyphenation^(key): he‧ti

Adverb

heti (not comparable)

1. (temporal) right away, as soon as (possible), immediately, at once

   Synonyms: heti, välittömästi, (jargon) asap

   heti, kun... ― as soon as ...

   heti, kun mahdollista ― as soon as possible

2. (locative) right, immediately, directly

   Synonym: aivan

   heti kulman takana ― right behind the corner

3. (dialectal, Central Finland, Central Ostrobothnia) Used as an intensifier.

   Synonym: kyllä

Derived terms

• hetimmiten

Further reading

• “heti”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• ehti, hiet

Hungarian

Etymology

hét (“week”) +‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛti]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: he‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

Adjective

heti (not comparable)

1. weekly, week

   Coordinate terms: évi, havi, napi

   Most megyek a heti értekezletre. ― I'm going to the weekly meeting.

   Heti száz dollár a bér. ― The rent is a hundred dollars a week.

   Jól emlékszem a múlt heti beszélgetésre. ― I remember the conversation last week well.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	heti	hetiek
accusative	hetit	hetieket
dative	hetinek	hetieknek
instrumental	hetivel	hetiekkel
causal-final	hetiért	hetiekért
translative	hetivé	hetiekké
terminative	hetiig	hetiekig
essive-formal	hetiként	hetiekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hetiben	hetiekben
superessive	hetin	hetieken
adessive	hetinél	hetieknél
illative	hetibe	hetiekbe
sublative	hetire	hetiekre
allative	hetihez	hetiekhez
elative	hetiből	hetiekből
delative	hetiről	hetiekről
ablative	hetitől	hetiektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	hetié	hetieké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hetiéi	hetiekéi

Derived terms

Compound words

• hetilap

Further reading

• heti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀳𑁂𑀢𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• हेति (Devanagari script)
• হেতি (Bengali script)
• හෙති (Sinhalese script)
• ဟေတိ or ႁေတိ (Burmese script)
• เหติ (Thai script)
• ᩉᩮᨲᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• ເຫຕິ (Lao script)
• ហេតិ (Khmer script)
• 𑄦𑄬𑄖𑄨 (Chakma script)

Verb

heti

1. third-person singular future active of hoti (“to be”)