-é (adjective-forming suffix,feminine-ena,masculine plural-ens,feminine plural-enes)
- (Valencia)alternative spelling of-è
Inherited fromMiddle French-é, fromOld French-é,-et,-at, fromLatin-ātus, fromProto-Italic*-ātos. Compare the borrowed doublet-at.
-é (adjective-forming suffix,feminine-ée,masculine plural-és,feminine plural-ées)
- (grammar)past participle root verb suffix of regular-er verbs, an inflected infinitive verb;-ed,-en,-n
Euphonic alteration of-e inpresubject position.
-é (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- inflection of-er:
- presubjectfirst-personsingularpresentindicative
- presubjectfirst-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- pensé-je
From a split of the obsolete lative suffix (below), with a semantic shift presumably evolving like “towards him/her” > “to him/her” > “of his/hers”.[1]
-é
- (non-attributive possessive suffix)-'s,belonging to ……,thatof …….Used to form the non-attributive possessive[2] form of nouns. Compare the English pronounsmine, yoursetc.). The plural form is-éi.
- iskola(“school”) ―iskoláé(“belonging to the school, of the school, the school's”)
- Ez a szék az iskoláé.(predicatively) ―This chairbelongs to the school / is the school’s.
- ház(“house”) ―házé(“that of the house”)
- A fa árnyéka nagy, a házé még nagyobb.(as part of the subject) ―The shadow of the tree is big;that of the house is even bigger.
- (non-attributive possessive suffix, slightly colloquial)-'s, thoseof …….It is also used informally for the plural of the non-attributive possessive (-éi being somewhat pedantic).
- Ezek a poharak a Pistáé. ―These glassesbelong to Steve / are Steve’s.
- 2021, Zsuzsa Mátraházi,Nádasdy Ádám: Még Arany János is követett el hibát műfordításban (interview withÁdám Nádasdy), HVG weekly:[1]
Azt vetették a szememre, hogy a fordításaim értelmesek, szépek és jól követhetők, de kevésbé költőiek, mint az elődeimé, például Arany Jánosé, Babits Mihályé, Mészöly Dezsőé.- I was rebuked for my translations being lucid, beautiful, and easy to follow, but less poetic thanthose of my predecessors, such asJános Arany,Mihály Babits, andDezső Mészöly(Q303494).
FromProto-Uralic*-j, which served as part of a diphthong (together with the vowel at the end of the noun stem) and became-á/-é.[3]
-é
- (obsolete, case suffix)Used to form thelative, expressing the direction (“where to”) or the purpose (“what for”).
- Synonyms:(other obsolete suffixes that had a similar function)-k,-ni,-nyi
- 1192–1195,Funeral Sermon and Prayer, translated by Alan Jenkins (In Quest of the Miracle Stag: The Poetry of Hungary, Vol. 1,→ISBN, p. 30)
- Menýi miloſtben terumteve eleve mív iſemucut adamut. eſ odutta vola neki paradiſumut haʒóá.
- Mennyi malasztban (= kegyelemben) teremté (= teremtette) kezdetben [az Úr] [a] mi ősünket, Ádámot, és adta (vala) neki [a] paradicsomot házzá.(in present-day Hungarian)
- God in his divine grace made Adam our ancestor, and gave him Edenfor his dwelling place.
- (case suffix) Variants:
- -á was added to back-vowel words.
- -é was added to front-vowel words.
together with its front-vowel variant
-é(clitic)
- (dialectal, chiefly Transylvania)alternative form of-e(“whether,if”)Tag for yes/no questions, always written with a hyphen before.
- Nem tudom, hogy sikerül-é. ―I don't knowif it will be successful.
-é
- (archaic personal suffix)Formed the third-person singular indicative past definite, for front-vowel verbs. For the full paradigm, see theusage template.
- Synonym:(modern form)-te
- Coordinate term:(for back-vowel-verbs)-á
- A virágokat nézé. ―S/he looked at the flowers.
See-e.
- -i(dialectal, except in some set forms)
-é
- combining form of-e(possessive suffix)before mostcase suffixes, except that of theessive-formal.
- feje(“his/her/its head”) + -n → fején(“on his/her/its head”)
For its variants occurring in standard usage, see-i(alternative form of-e and-é as the third-person singular single-possession possessive suffix).
- (whether, if):-é , redirecting to-e in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
- (whether, if):-é, redirecting to-e in Nóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ez as of 2024).
-é (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- used with a stem to form thethird-personpast historic of regular-ere verbs
- Synonym:-ette
-é
- (nominalizer)the one that, the one who
Similar to the-er suffix in English, the-é suffix attached to a verb means "the one who does [verb]". It is a variant of-í.
- -e(manuscript form)
- -et(12th century or earlier)
Inherited fromLatin-ātus. First attested in 842, as-at (jurat in theOaths of Strasbourg) > (first attested inc. 1050)-et in theSong of Roland; the form-é first appears in the 12th century.
-é
- used to form past participles of regular -er verbs
FromVulgar Latin-āī, fromLatin-āvī.
-é
- a suffix indicating thefirst-person singularindicativepreterite of a verb in-ar
