rettent
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɛtːɛnt]
- Hyphenation: ret‧tent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology 1
retten (“to shrink back, recoil”) + -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)
Verb
rettent
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of retten
Usage notes
This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:
- rettent (…) el, el … rettent ― elrettent ― elretten
- rettent (…) meg, meg … rettent ― megrettent ― megretten
- and some more, see its derivatives with verbal prefixes.
Participle
rettent
- past participle of retten
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | rettent | rettentek |
| accusative | rettentet | rettenteket |
| dative | rettentnek | rettenteknek |
| instrumental | rettenttel | rettentekkel |
| causal-final | rettentért | rettentekért |
| translative | rettentté | rettentekké |
| terminative | rettentig | rettentekig |
| essive-formal | rettentként | rettentekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | rettentben | rettentekben |
| superessive | rettenten | rettenteken |
| adessive | rettentnél | rettenteknél |
| illative | rettentbe | rettentekbe |
| sublative | rettentre | rettentekre |
| allative | rettenthez | rettentekhez |
| elative | rettentből | rettentekből |
| delative | rettentről | rettentekről |
| ablative | rettenttől | rettentektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | rettenté | rettenteké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | rettentéi | rettentekéi |
Related terms
From the verb retten
- rettenet → rettenetes → rettenetesen
Etymology 2
retten (“to shrink back, recoil”) + -t (causative verb-forming suffix)
Verb
rettent
- (transitive, literary) to deter (to prevent or discourage someone from doing something)
- Synonyms: ijeszt, rémít, riaszt
- 1936, Attila József, Nagyon fáj (It Hurts So Much), translated by Peter Zollman,[1] László Fórizs (Q1005876), and Tamás Kabdebó (Q1103115)
- Nem szégyenlem, ha kitalálom, // hisz kitaszit / a világ így is olyat, akit / kábít a nap, rettent az álom.
- It’s not a shame to guess this right, // but I’m aware / that we are hated everywhere / who dream by day and fret at night.
- (literally, “…who is dazed by the Sun and terrified by dreams.”)
- I’m not ashamed that I found it out. // Because who is / scared by his dreams dazed by the sun / will be driven out in any case.
- No shame on me to find just only one // solution, since / an outcast I am / frightened by dreams and dazed by the sun.
- It’s not a shame to guess this right, // but I’m aware / that we are hated everywhere / who dream by day and fret at night.
- Nem szégyenlem, ha kitalálom, // hisz kitaszit / a világ így is olyat, akit / kábít a nap, rettent az álom.
Usage notes
This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:
- rettent (…) el, el … rettent ― elrettent
- rettent (…) fel, fel … rettent ― felrettent
- rettent (…) meg, meg … rettent ― megrettent
- rettent (…) vissza, vissza … rettent ― visszarettent
Conjugation
conjugation of rettent
| 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. | rettentek | rettentesz | rettent | rettentünk | rettentetek | rettentenek |
| Def. | rettentem | rettented | rettenti | rettentjük | rettentitek | rettentik | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | rettentelek | ― | ||||||
| Past | Indef. | rettentettem | rettentettél | rettentett | rettentettünk | rettentettetek | rettentettek | |
| Def. | rettentettem | rettentetted | rettentette | rettentettük | rettentettétek | rettentették | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | rettentettelek | ― | ||||||
| Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | rettentenék | rettentenél | rettentene | rettentenénk | rettentenétek | rettentenének |
| Def. | rettenteném | rettentenéd | rettentené | rettentenénk (or rettentenők) | rettentenétek | rettentenék | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | rettentenélek | ― | ||||||
| Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | rettentsek | rettents or rettentsél | rettentsen | rettentsünk | rettentsetek | rettentsenek |
| Def. | rettentsem | rettentsd or rettentsed | rettentse | rettentsük | rettentsétek | rettentsék | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | rettentselek | ― | ||||||
| Infinitive | rettenteni | rettentenem | rettentened | rettentenie | rettentenünk | rettentenetek | rettenteniük | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| rettentés | rettentő | rettentett | rettentendő | rettentve | rettenthet | |||
Derived terms
- rettentés
- rettenthetetlen
- rettentő → rettentően
References
- József, Attila. 43 Poems. Translated by Peter Zollman. Budapest, Maecenas Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN This passage in a snippet by Google Books
Further reading
- rettent 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
- Results for both senses of “rettent” among the examples in A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára