gyere

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. It is used in the subjunctive mode of jön (“to come”) instead of the regular subjunctive forms (except in formal, archaic style). Its more original, more archaic form may have been jerj. The leading j- → gy- assimilation is similar to jön → gyön, a dialectal variant. For the dropping of the final -j, compare eper, szeder.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɟɛrɛ]
Hyphenation: gye‧re
Rhymes: -rɛ

Verb

gyere

second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of jön
Gyere velünk! ― Come with us!

Conjugation

Only three forms are used: aside from the second-person singular form above, gyerünk (“let’s go”) and gyertek (“come!”, plural imperative). For all other forms (and the archaic, literary counterparts of these three forms), see the conjugation of jön.

References

^ gyere 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.)
^ gyere in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.