-et

From Middle English -et, from Old French -et.

-et

1. Used to form diminutives, loosely construed.

• -ette

• TE, te

-et n

1. Forms active verbs into mediopassive verbs. Indicating 3rd person singular, indicative, present: it is; (it) -s; (it) is -ing/-n/-ed/-t

   active verbs ending with consonant:

   merr (“it takes”) + -et → merret (it is taken)

   merret

   (it) is taken

   active verbs ending with vowels (adding -h in between to avoid palatalisation):

   lë (“it lets, leaves”) + -h + -et → lihet (it is left)

   lihet vetëm

   it is left alone

• (indicative present (passive))
  • -em, -hem
  • -esh, -hesh
  • -het
  • -emi, -hemi
  • -eni, -heni
  • -en, -hen
• (indicative present (active))
  • -oj, -j
  • -on, -n
  • -ojmë, -jmë, -më
  • -oni, -ni
  • -ojnë, -jnë, -në

Inherited from Late Latin -ittus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈet]

-et m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ets)

1. forms diminutives or endearing variants of nouns

   ‎llaç (“knot, loop”) + ‎-et → ‎llacet (diminutive)

   ‎formatge (“cheese”) + ‎-et → ‎formatget (diminutive)

   ‎rei (“king”) + ‎-et → ‎reiet (diminutive)

   ‎roda (“wheel”) + ‎-et → ‎rodet (“reel, spool”)

-et (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -eta, masculine plural -ets, feminine plural -etes)

1. forms diminutives or endearing variants of adjectives

   ‎poc (“little”) + ‎-et → ‎poquet (“very little”)

• IPA^(key): /əð/, [ð̩], [ð̩˕˗ˠ]

-et

1. Forms past participles of some verbs, like -t.
2. Forms the definite singular of most neuter nouns.
3. Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "like [noun]"; -esque.

   ‎snerpe (“prude”) + ‎-et → ‎snerpet (“prudish”)

4. Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "having [noun], being equipped with [noun]".

   ‎mønster (“pattern”) + ‎-et → ‎mønstret (“patterned”)

   ‎to (“two”) + ‎sprog (“language”) + ‎-et → ‎tosproget (“bilingual”)

• IPA^(key): /et/

-et (personal)

1. (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of et
2. (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of te

Inherited from Middle French -et, from Old French -et, from Late Latin -ittus.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

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-et m (feminine -ette)

1. suffix indicating diminution or affection

• →? Galician: -ete, -eta
• → Spanish: -ete

• IPA^(key): [ɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt

From -e- +‎ -t (causative suffix).

-et

1. (causative suffix) Added to a verb (or extremely rarely to a noun) to form a verb with a meaning of letting, making somebody do something or having something done to someone or something.

   Synonyms: -tat/-tet, -aszt/-eszt/-öszt, -jt/-ajt/-ejt, -ít, -dít, (obsolete in this sense) -t

   ‎néz (“to look”) + ‎-et → ‎nézet (“to have something (like a body part) looked at (by a doctor) or (less commonly) to make someone look at something”)

   ‎ég (“to burn”) (intransitive) + ‎-et → ‎éget (“to make something burn or (less commonly) to have someone burn something”)

   ‎mér (“to measure”) + ‎-et → ‎méret (“to make someone measure something or to have something measured”)

• (causative suffix) Variants:

  -at is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words

  ‎vár (“to wait”) + ‎-at → ‎várat (“to have someone wait”)

  -et is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words

  ‎kér (“to ask for”) + ‎-et → ‎kéret (“to have someone ask(ed) for; to summon someone [by ordering a servant to fetch him/her]”)

  -tat is added to back-vowel words ending in a vowel + t

  ‎tisztít (“to clean”) + ‎-tat → ‎tisztíttat (“to have someone clean or to have something cleaned”)

  -tet is added to front-vowel words ending in a vowel + t

  ‎keres (“to look for”) + ‎-tet → ‎kerestet (“to have someone look(ed) for”)

• Műveltető (faktitív) “Factitive” in Kiefer, Ferenc (ed.). Strukturális magyar nyelvtan 3. Morfológia (“A structural grammar of Hungarian, Vol. 3. Morphology”), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000.

From -e- +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix).

-et (noun-forming suffix)

1. Added to a verb to form a noun, expressing the result of the action or sometimes a more abstract relation (compare -ás/-és).

   Synonym: -mány/-mény

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -at is added to back-vowel verbs

  ‎gondol (“to think”) + ‎-at → ‎gondolat (“a thought, an idea”)

  ‎mond (“to say”) + ‎-at → ‎mondat (“sentence”)

  -et is added to front-vowel verbs

  ‎dicsér (“to praise”) + ‎-et → ‎dicséret (“praise, commendation”)

  ‎él (“to live”) + ‎-et → ‎élet (“life”)

  ‎ítél (“to judge”) + ‎-et → ‎ítélet (“judgment”)

  ‎mér (“to measure”) + ‎-et → ‎méret (“measurement, size”)

From -e- (linking vowel) +‎ -t (accusative suffix).

-et (accusative case suffix)

1. Unrounded front-vowel variant of -t. See details there.

   ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-et → ‎kertet (“garden”)

   Láttam egy gyönyörű kertet. ― I saw a beautiful garden.

• (accusative case suffix): It can be added to nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns. Whether a suffix-initial vowel (linking vowel) will be used is hard to predict and thus needs to be learned with each word. A rule of thumb, however, is that older and shorter words tend to incorporate a vowel, rather than simply use -t. Variants:

  -t is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-. Final -o in foreign words changes to -ó-.

  -ot is added to most back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -at is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -et is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öt is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  -∅ (zero form), optionally, after possessive suffixes, especially in the singular but sometimes also in the plural (and not infrequently after multiple-possession forms as well), except for the third-person singular (“his/her/its”, -ja/-je) as its omission would not reduce the number of syllables.

  Elviszem a kabátom(at/∅), kabátod(at/∅); kabátunk(at/∅), kabátotok(at/∅), kabátjuk(at/∅); kabátjaim(at/∅) etc.

  I’ll take my coat, your coat; our coat, [plural] your coat, their coat; my coats etc.

  It is also omitted usually from the accusative forms of first- and second-person singular personal pronouns (engem, téged (“me, you”)).

From -etik (passive-forming suffix), removing the ending.

-et

1. Combining form of -etik (passive-forming suffix) before all inflectional and derivational suffixes, except the dictionary form itself, the indefinite third-person singular present indicative

   küldetik (“to be sent”) → küldetés (“mission”).

(combining forms of the passive-forming suffix) Variants: -at-, -et-, -tat-, -tet- (from -atik, -etik, -tatik, -tetik), as well as the tautological (doubly suffixed) forms -attat-, -ettet- (from -attatik, -ettetik). See more in the template of the full forms of this suffix.

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• -ꝫ (abbreviation, Medieval Latin)
• -& (abbreviation, Medieval Latin, uncommon)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /et/, [ɛt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /et/, [ɛt̪]
• Homophone: et

-et

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of -ō (first conjugation)

Borrowed from Old French -et, and its feminine variant -ette, from Late Latin -ittus (and the other gender forms -itta, -ittum).

• IPA^(key): /it/, /ɛt/

-et

1. Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words, it has lost its original meaning.

• English: -et

• “-et, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-04.

From Old French -et.

-et

1. Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.

• French: -et

From Proto-Samic *-ëjëtēk.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈ-eh(t)/

-et

1. Forms momentane verbs.

   ‎njuikut (“to jump around”) + ‎-et → ‎njuiket (“to jump once”)

• This suffix triggers the strongest grade on a preceding stressed syllable.

From Old Norse -it.

• IPA^(key): /ə/
• Reduced final -e is lost before the suffix; both forms are then pronounced the same (e.g. hode and hodet).

-et

1. Forms the definite singular of neuter nouns.

• det (article, pronoun; t also silent)
• -t (adjective suffix; t pronounced)

From Danish -et (past participle suffix), generalised to the past tense (Danish -ede) through influence of native Norwegian dialects.

• IPA^(key): /ət/

-et

1. Forms the past tense and past participle of class-1 weak verbs.

   Synonym: -a

From Old Norse -óttr.

-et (definite singular and plural -ete)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of -ete

• et, te

• -ett, -ot, -ut, -yt

From Proto-Germanic *-atją, *-itją, *-utją.

• IPA^(key): /et/

-et n

1. suffix forming nouns from verbs, adjectives, and other nouns (sometimes causes i-mutation)

   þēowot ― service, religious service, ministry

   grafet ― trench

   bærnet ― a burning, combustion, cauterizing

   emnet ― level ground, leveling

   þiccet ― thicket

   rēwet ― rowing; ship, row-boat

   rȳmet ― space, clearance, extension

   swefet, sweofot ― sleep; sleeping

   þyrnet ― thicket of thorns, thorny place

• -ot was originally used with class 2 weak verbs in -ian ← *-ojan (from Proto-Germanic *-ōną). Confer usages for -od, -ung, -oþ, -ol, -or.

• English: thicket

From Late Latin -ittus.

-et

1. Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.

• Middle French: -et
  • French: -et

From Latin -ātus.

-et

1. (12th century and before) Alternative form of -é (suffix used to form past participles of regular -er verbs)

Inherited from Latin -ētum. Compare Italian -eto, French -aie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈet/

-et n (plural -eturi or -ete)

1. Used with plant or tree names to form names of orchards, woods, forests, or groves.

   brad (“fir tree”) → brădet (“fir-tree forest”)

   ulm (“elm”) → ulmet (“elm forest”)

   fag (“beech”) → făget (“beech forest”)

Inherited from Latin -itus. No longer productive.

• -ăt

• IPA^(key): /et/ (stressed on the antepenultimate)

-et n (plural -ete)

1. (unproductive) Used to form nouns derived from the action of some verbs.

   zâmbi (“to smile”) → zâmbet (“a smile”)

   zbiera (“to scream”) → zbieret (“a scream”)

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/

-et

1. Suffix for definite form singular of neuter nouns, especially if they end with consonant or a stressed vowel.
2. Suffix for the neuter form of past participles of verbs belonging to the fourth declension (strong verbs). This may be analyzed as two morphemes: a combination of the suffix -en for past participle and -t for neuter, where the n of the first suffix disappears. Such an analysis is historically correct.

• (nonstandard; slang) 1

• -te, te

-et

1. Used to indicate a consequential or concrete example

• -set

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɛt/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /at/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɛt/

-et

1. (colloquial) verb suffix for the second-person singular conditional