légyen
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the noun légy (“fly”) + -en (case suffix).
Alternative forms edit
- legyen (somewhat folksy in this sense)
Noun edit
légyen
Etymology 2 edit
From the shared stem of van (“to be”) and lesz (“to become; will be”) + -jen.
Verb edit
légyen
- Alternative form of legyen, third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of van.
- Alternative form of legyen, third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of lesz.
Usage notes edit
Although this form variant is archaic, it still occurs in a concessive (subjunctive) sense (“whether he/she/it be”), especially in the past tense, mainly in the phrase lett légyen (“whether he/she/it were”) (occasionally also applied to the present) and rarely combined with other verbs (examples).