mert

See also: Mert and mért

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English mert, shortened from merchant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məːt/

Noun

mert (plural merts)

1. (Cape Afrikaans) A drug dealer.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin meritum.

Noun

mert m (plural merts)

1. merit

Related terms

• mertâ

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛrt]

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• Hyphenation: mert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

Etymology 1

Shortened from meret, an obsolete variant of miért (“why”).

Conjunction

mert

1. because (by or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that)

   Synonyms: mivel, ugyanis, minthogy, merthogy, hiszen, (partially synonymous) miután

   Coordinate term: (“the reason why”, optionally supplied in the focus position of the main clause) azért

   Becsuktam az ablakot, mert fáztam. or Azért csuktam be az ablakot, mert fáztam. ― I closed the window because I was cold. (literally, “The reason why I closed the window was that I was cold.”)

Derived terms

(Compound words):

• merthogy

See also

• ezért
• tehát

Etymology 2

mer (“to dare; to ladle”) +‎ -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)

Verb

mert

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mer

Participle

mert

1. past participle of mer

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	mert	mertek
accusative	mertet	merteket
dative	mertnek	merteknek
instrumental	merttel	mertekkel
causal-final	mertért	mertekért
translative	mertté	mertekké
terminative	mertig	mertekig
essive-formal	mertként	mertekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mertben	mertekben
superessive	merten	merteken
adessive	mertnél	merteknél
illative	mertbe	mertekbe
sublative	mertre	mertekre
allative	merthez	mertekhez
elative	mertből	mertekből
delative	mertről	mertekről
ablative	merttől	mertektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	merté	merteké
non-attributive possessive – plural	mertéi	mertekéi

Further reading

• mert 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

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مرد (merd, “man”), hence the given name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mært/, [mæɾ̊t]

Adjective

mert

1. manly; valiant
2. (figuratively) man of his word

Declension

Predicative forms of mert

present tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I am)	mertim	mert miyim?
sen (you are)	mertsin	mert misin?
o (he/she/it is)	mert / merttir	mert mi?
biz (we are)	mertiz	mert miyiz?
siz (you are)	mertsiniz	mert misiniz?
onlar (they are)	mert(ler)	mert(ler) mi?
past tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	merttim	mert miydim?
sen (you were)	merttin	mert miydin?
o (he/she/it was)	mertti	mert miydi?
biz (we were)	merttik	mert miydik?
siz (you were)	merttiniz	mert miydiniz?
onlar (they were)	merttiler	mert miydiler?
indirect past
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	mertmişim	mert miymişim?
sen (you were)	mertmişsin	mert miymişsin?
o (he/she/it was)	mertmiş	mert miymiş?
biz (we were)	mertmişiz	mert miymişiz?
siz (you were)	mertmişsiniz	mert miymişsiniz?
onlar (they were)	mertmişler	mert miymişler?
conditional
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (if I)	mertsem	mert miysem?
sen (if you)	mertsen	mert miysen?
o (if he/she/it)	mertse	mert miyse?
biz (if we)	mertsek	mert miysek?
siz (if you)	mertseniz	mert miyseniz?
onlar (if they)	mertseler	mert miyseler?

For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.

References

“mert”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu