Meaning of -et | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Added to a verb (or extremely rarely to a noun) to form a verb with a meaning of letting, making somebody do something or having something done to someone or 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. Unrounded front-vowel variant of -t. See details there.
   accusative, morpheme, suffix
4. combining form of -etik (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

“néz (“to look”) + -et → nézet (“to have something (like a body part) looked at (by a doctor) or (less commonly) to make someone look at something”)”

“ég (“to burn”) (intransitive) + -et → éget (“to make something burn or (less commonly) to have someone burn something”)”

“mér (“to measure”) + -et → méret (“to make someone measure something or to have something measured”)”

“kert (“garden”) + -et → kertet (“garden”)”

“Láttam egy gyönyörű kertet.”

I saw a beautiful garden.

“küldetik (“to be sent”) → küldetés (“mission”).”

CEFR level