minket

Hungarian

Etymology

From the personal pronoun mi (“we”) +‎ -nk (first-person plural possessive suffix) +‎ -et (accusative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmiŋkɛt]
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Hyphenation: min‧ket
Rhymes: -ɛt

Pronoun

minket

accusative of mi (“we”): us (as the direct object of a verb)
Synonym: bennünket

Meghívtak minket. ― They invited us.

Láttok minket? ― Can you see us?

Coordinate terms

(singular): engem(et) (“me”) ― (informal) téged(et), (formal) magát, (official) önt (“you”) ― őt (“him/her”);
(plural): minket/bennünket (“us”) ― (infml) titeket/benneteket, (fml) magukat, (off.) önöket (“you all”) ― őket (“them”)

See also

Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

References

Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library^db and other institutions), p. 214

Further reading

minket , partly redirecting to (1): mi 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

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