Meaning of -at | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Added to a back-vowel verb (or extremely rarely to a noun) to form a verb with a meaning of let or make somebody do something.
   causative, morpheme, suffix
2. Added to a verb to form a noun, expressing the result of the action or sometimes a more abstract relation (compare -ás/-és).
   morpheme
3. Forms the accusative case for a certain group of back-vowel nouns and numerals, back-vowel past participles, most back-vowel adjectives, and all back-vowel forms following any other inflectional suffix(es).
   accusative, morpheme, suffix
4. combining form of -atik (passive-forming suffix) before all inflectional and derivational suffixes, except the dictionary form itself, the indefinite third-person singular present indicative
   form-of, in-compounds, morpheme

Equivalents

Examples

“zár (“to close”) + -at → zárat (“to make someone close something or to have something closed”)”

“Vettem egy házat.”

I bought a house.

“okos (“smart, clever”) → okosat (“smart, clever [acc.]”)”

“hány? (“how many”) → hányat?”

“how many [acc.]”

“három (“three”) → hármat (“three [acc.]”)”

“ablakok (“windows”) → ablakokat (“windows [acc.]”)”

“asztalom (“my desk/table”) → asztalomat (“my desk/table [acc.]”)”

“nagyobb (“bigger”) → nagyobbat (“a/the bigger one [acc.]”)”

“nyitott (“opened”) → nyitottat (“the opened one [acc.]”)”

“elnyomatik (“to be suppressed”) → elnyomatás (“suppression”, being suppressed).”

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