lehet
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the shared le- stem of van (“to be”) and lesz (“to become; will be”) + -het (potential suffix added to verbs).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
lehet
- potential form of van, may/might be
- Este 8-kor már otthon lehet. ― S/he may be already at home at 8 p.m.
- potential form of lesz, may/might become
- Akár miniszterelnök is lehet belőle! ― S/he might even become Prime Minister! (literally, “Even a Prime Minister might become out of him/her!”)
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of lehet
| 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal | 3rd person sg, 2nd person sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal | 3rd person pl, 2nd person pl formal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Mood | Present | Indefinite | lehetek | lehetsz | lehet | lehetünk | lehettek | lehetnek |
| Definite | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
| Past | Indefinite | lehettem | lehettél | lehetett | lehettünk | lehettetek | lehettek | |
| Definite | - | |||||||
| Conditional Mood | Present | Indefinite | lehetnék | lehetnél | lehetne | lehetnénk | lehetnétek | lehetnének |
| Definite | - | |||||||
| Subjunctive Mood | Present | Indefinite | lehessek | lehess or lehessél |
lehessen | lehessünk | lehessetek | lehessenek |
| Definite | - | |||||||
| Other nonfinite verb forms |
Infinitive (archaic) | Positive adjective (-able) | Negative adjective (un-…-able) | |||||
| lehetni | - | |||||||
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Further reading[edit]
- lehet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Pass Valley Yali[edit]
Noun[edit]
lehet
References[edit]
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 18