enged
Hungarian
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from a Turkic language + -ed (frequentative-instantaneous suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɛŋɡɛd]
- Hyphenation: en‧ged
- Rhymes: -ɛd
Verb
enged
- (intransitive) to give way, give in, yield, cede, succumb (to some force: -nak/-nek)
- Antonyms: ellenáll (“to withstand”), ragaszkodik (“to insist”)
- (intransitive) to concede, give ground, yield, retreat, relax, budge (in an argument; from one’s stance: -ból/-ből)
- (transitive) to allow, permit
- Synonyms: engedélyez, hagy
- Antonyms: tilt, megtilt
- (transitive) to run (to make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object)
- Synonyms: folyat, ereszt
- (transitive) to take a certain amount less, remit (reduce amount e.g. by giving discount; out of some price: -ból/-ből, with the amount of reduction in the accusative)
- Tíz százalékot tudok engedni az árból. ― I can reduce the price by ten percent or I can take ten percent less.
- (intransitive, e.g. of a knot or noose) to ease, slacken
- Synonyms: kilazul, meglazul
- (intransitive, chiefly of frost) break, ease, cease, subside, let up (to become less severe)
- Synonyms: enyhül, mérséklődik
- (intransitive, of color of a dye in washing) to bleed (to spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth)
- Synonym: ereszt
Conjugation
conjugation of enged
| 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal | 3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal | 1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal | 3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative mood | Present | Indef. | engedek | engedsz | enged | engedünk | engedtek | engednek |
| Def. | engedem | engeded | engedi | engedjük | engeditek | engedik | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | engedlek | ― | ||||||
| Past | Indef. | engedtem | engedtél | engedett | engedtünk | engedtetek | engedtek | |
| Def. | engedtem | engedted | engedte | engedtük | engedtétek | engedték | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | engedtelek | ― | ||||||
| Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | engednék | engednél | engedne | engednénk | engednétek | engednének |
| Def. | engedném | engednéd | engedné | engednénk (or engednők) | engednétek | engednék | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | engednélek | ― | ||||||
| Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | engedjek | engedj or engedjél | engedjen | engedjünk | engedjetek | engedjenek |
| Def. | engedjem | engedd or engedjed | engedje | engedjük | engedjétek | engedjék | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | engedjelek | ― | ||||||
| Infinitive | engedni | engednem | engedned | engednie | engednünk | engednetek | engedniük | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| engedés | engedő | engedett | engedendő | engedve | engedhet | |||
Derived terms
- engedelem
- engedetlen
- engedékeny
- engedély
- engedmény
(With verbal prefixes):
- átenged
- beenged
- elenged
- előreenged
- felenged
- fölenged
- hátraenged
- hazaenged
- ideenged
- keresztülenged
- kienged
- leenged
- megenged
- odaenged
- összeenged
- ráenged
- szétenged
- továbbenged
- visszaenged
Expressions
- okos enged, szamár szenved
Related terms
- engesztel
Descendants
- Romanian: îngădui
References
- enged 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
- enged in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- enged in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)