-ötte
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ötte
- (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular past tense of verbs (definite conjugation).
- köszönt (“to greet”) + -ötte → köszöntötte (“he/she (has/had) greeted”)
- süt (“to bake”) + -ötte → sütötte (“he/she (has/had) baked”)
- (verbal-participle suffix) Used to form the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun.
- süt (“to bake”) → [anyám] sütötte [kenyér] (“[bread] baked by [my mother]”, literally “my-mother-baked bread”)
Usage notes edit
- (past-tense and verbal-participle suffix) Variants:
- -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
- -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
- -tta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, rí, szí; ó, ró; fú)
- -tte is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (lő, nő, sző; nyű)
- -otta 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)
- -ette is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)
- -ötte 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)
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
- -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
- -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally jő)
- -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)
- -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)