lehet

Hungarian

Etymology

From the shared le- stem of van (to be) and lesz (to become; will be) + -het (potential suffix added to verbs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛhɛt]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: le‧het

Verb

lehet

  1. potential form of van, may/might be
    Este 8-kor már otthon lehet.S/he may be already at home at 8 p.m.
  2. potential form of lesz, may/might become
    Akár miniszterelnök is lehet belőle!S/he might even become Prime Minister! (literally, “Even a Prime Minister might become out of him/her!”)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions
  • ellehet
  • kilehet
  • meglehet
  • odalehet

Further reading

  • lehet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Pass Valley Yali

Noun

lehet

  1. fence

References

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