-het
See also: het, hét, hèt, hết, and нет
Albanian
Etymology
3rd pers. sg. passive marker; -h (added when verb ends with a vowel; to avoid palatalisation) + et. See Albanian -et for more.
Suffix
-het n
- Forms active verbs into mediopassive verbs. Indicating 3rd person singular, indicative, present: it is; (it) -s; (it) is -ing/-n/-ed/-t
- attached on active verbs ending with vowels (adding -h to avoid palatalisation):
- lë (“it lets, leaves”) + -het → lihet (it is left)
- lihet vetëm
- it is left alone
- lë (“it lets, leaves”) + -het → lihet (it is left)
- attached on active verbs ending with vowels (adding -h to avoid palatalisation):
See also
- (indicative present (passive))
- -em, -hem
- -esh, -hesh
- -et
- -emi, -hemi
- -eni, -heni
- -en, -hen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [hɛt]
Suffix
-het
- (potential suffix, added to verbs):
- felejt (“to forget”) → felejthet (“may forget, can forget”)
- may, having the potential to do or be something (expressing possibility)
- A hosszan magára hagyott kutya ugathat, nyüszíthet, bepisilhet vagy rombolhat. ― A dog left alone for a long time may bark, whimper, wet itself, or destroy things.
- Synonym: lehet/meglehet/előfordulhat/megtörténhet/megeshet, hogy…
- may, can, being permitted, allowed, or enabled to (expressing permission)
- Ebbe a házba bemehet a kutya. ― The dog is allowed to enter this house.
- Ezt én nem írhatom alá helyetted. ― I cannot (= am not allowed to) sign it instead of you.
- Synonym: (with the logical subject in the dative) szabad
- can (expressing opportunity)
- Ennél a forrásnál ihatunk vizet és meguzsonnázhatunk. ― At this spring we can drink water and have a snack.
- Synonym: (the argument supplied with -ra/-re or in the infinitive) módja/lehetősége van
Usage notes
- (potential suffix) Harmonic variants:
- -hat is added to back-vowel verbs
- -het is added to front-vowel verbs
- To express can in the sense “to be able to”, see tud.
Derived terms
- -hetetlen
- -hetnék
Hungarian verbs suffixed with -het
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
- Category:Hungarian auxiliary verbs
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German -hēt, -heit, from Old Saxon -hēd, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“manner, way; state”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keyt-, *(s)keydʰ- (“clear, bright, shining”).
Cognate with Danish -hed, Swedish -het, German -heit, Dutch -heid and English -hood.
Suffix
-het m or f
- Suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness -ity.
- kjølig - kjølighet (cool - coolness)
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål terms suffixed with -het
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish -het, which is borrowed from Middle Low German -heit, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz. Cognate with Danish -hed, German -heit, Dutch -heid, English -hood.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌheːt/, [ˌheə̯t]
Suffix
-het c
- Productive suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness, -ity
- nödvändig - nödvändighet (necessary - necessity)
Derived terms
Swedish terms suffixed with -het
References
- -het in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams
- the