-lak
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lak"
Hungarian
editEtymology
editFrom -l (frequentative suffix) + -a- (linking vowel) + -k (first-person singular personal suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
editSuffix
edit-lak
- (personal suffix) Forms the first-person singular of transitive verbs with a second-person object (if no other suffixes are present before it, in indicative mood, present tense).
Usage notes
edit- (personal suffix) See harmonic variants in the table below.
2nd-person-object present-tense personal endings
| Person (subject) |
Verb ending |
Back vowel | Front vowel | 2nd-person object (informal “you”) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||||
| én (“I”) |
most types | -lak | -lek | téged | titeket / benneteket |
| two consonants or long vowel + t |
-alak | -elek | |||
| When the 2nd-person object is addressed formally (önt/magát or their plural), the definite suffixes are used. See also: indefinite suffixes. | |||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ -lak in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)