Hungarian

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Etymology

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From an otherwise unattested stem of unknown origin + -ed (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛɱvɛd]
  • Hyphenation: szen‧ved
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

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szenved

  1. (intransitive) to suffer (in general from something: -tól/-től, from a disease: -ban/-ben)
  2. (transitive) to sustain, undergo (some specified injury, accident, damage, loss, defeat, disadvantage, persecution etc.)

Conjugation

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If it is used transitively, its object is usually not definite, so the conjugation of the verb is normally indefinite too.

Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

References

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  1. ^ szenved 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.)

Further reading

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  • szenved in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN