settenkedik
Hungarian
Etymology
From an onomatopoeic stem evoking the sound of slow foot-dragging + -kedik (verb-forming suffix).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃɛtːɛŋkɛdik]
- Hyphenation: set‧ten‧ke‧dik
- Rhymes: -ɛdik
Verb
settenkedik
- (intransitive) to sneak, to creep (to move furtively, stealthily)
- Tegnap rajtakaptam, hogy settenkedett a fáskamra körül. ― Yesterday I caught him/her sneaking around the woodshed.
Conjugation
conjugation of settenkedik
| 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 | Indefinite | settenkedem or settenkedek | settenkedsz | settenkedik | settenkedünk | settenkedtek | settenkednek |
| Definite | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
| 2nd-p. object | ― | |||||||
| Past | Indefinite | settenkedtem | settenkedtél | settenkedett | settenkedtünk | settenkedtetek | settenkedtek | |
| Definite | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. object | ― | |||||||
| Conditional mood | Present | Indefinite | settenkednék | settenkednél | settenkedne | settenkednénk | settenkednétek | settenkednének |
| Definite | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. object | ― | |||||||
| Subjunctive mood | Present | Indefinite | settenkedjek | settenkedj or settenkedjél | settenkedjen or settenkedjék | settenkedjünk | settenkedjetek | settenkedjenek |
| Definite | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. object | ― | |||||||
| Infinitive | settenkedni | settenkednem | settenkedned | settenkednie | settenkednünk | settenkednetek | settenkedniük | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| settenkedés | settenkedő | settenkedett | ― | settenkedve | settenkedhet | |||
Derived terms
- settenkedés
(With verbal prefixes):
- besettenkedik
- idesettenkedik
- kisettenkedik
- lesettenkedik
- odasettenkedik
- visszasettenkedik
References
- Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
- Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (’Explanatory Dictionary Plus’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN
Further reading
- settenkedik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.