Hungarian

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Etymology

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From the shared le- stem of van (to be) and lesz (to become; will be) + -het (potential suffix added to verbs).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛhɛt]
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  • Hyphenation: le‧het

Verb

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lehet

  1. potential form of van, may/might be
    Este 8-kor már otthon lehet.S/he may be already at home at 8 p.m.
  2. 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

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Further reading

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  • 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

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Noun

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lehet

  1. fence

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