lettetek

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛtːɛtɛk]
• Hyphenation: let‧te‧tek

Etymology 1

From the le- stem of lesz (“to become”) +‎ -ttetek (second-person plural indicative past-tense personal suffix).

Verb

lettetek

1. second-person plural indicative past of lesz (“you [all] have become, you [all] became”)

   Orvosok lettetek. ― You have become (or you became) doctors.

2. construed with volna: second-person plural conditional past of lesz (“you would have become, [if] you had become”)

   Legszívesebben orvosok lettetek volna. ― You’d have preferably become doctors or What you wanted to do best was become doctors.

Etymology 2

From the le- suppletive stem of van (“to be”) +‎ -ttetek (second-person plural indicative past-tense personal suffix).

Verb

lettetek

1. Only used in lettetek volna (second-person plural conditional past of van, “you would have been, [if] you had been”).

   Ha metróval jöttök (or jöttetek volna), időben itt lettetek volna. ― If you had taken the subway, you would have been here on time.

   Ha itt lettetek volna, segítettetek volna. ― If you had been here, you would have helped [us/them].

Etymology 3

lett (“a Latvian person”) +‎ -etek (“your”, second-person plural possessive suffix)

Noun

lettetek

1. (rare) second-person plural single-possession possessive of lett

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lettetek	—
accusative	letteteket	—
dative	letteteknek	—
instrumental	lettetekkel	—
causal-final	lettetekért	—
translative	lettetekké	—
terminative	lettetekig	—
essive-formal	lettetekként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	lettetekben	—
superessive	letteteken	—
adessive	letteteknél	—
illative	lettetekbe	—
sublative	lettetekre	—
allative	lettetekhez	—
elative	lettetekből	—
delative	lettetekről	—
ablative	lettetektől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	letteteké	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	lettetekéi	—