HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

-l (frequentative suffix) +‎ -a- +‎ -k (first-person singular personal suffix) [1]

PronunciationEdit

SuffixEdit

-lak

  1. (personal suffix) Used to form 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).
    lát (to see)látlak (I see you)

Usage notesEdit

  • (personal suffix) See harmonic variants in the table below.

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ -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.)