Meaning of -sz | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Forms the second-person singular present tense of verbs (indicative mood, indefinite conjugation).
   morpheme, personal, suffix
2. It was later reinterpreted as a present-tense marker, and eventually as a part of the stem. Sometimes it is one of several suffixes, such as in -szik and in -szkodik/-aszkodik/-eszkedik (qq.v.). Its frequentative sense is still perceptible in verbs suffixed with -ászik/-észik.
   morpheme
3. See -asz/-esz.
   morpheme

Equivalents

Examples

“tud (“can”) + -sz → tudsz (“you can”)”

“Tudsz segíteni?”

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“Individual verbs: metsz (“to cut, incise”), uszít (“to instigate”), vonszol (“to drag/lug”), edz (et + sz) (“to train/harden”) etc.”

“sz-inserting v-stem verbs: tesz (“to do; to put”), lesz (“to become; will be”), vesz (“to take/get”), visz (“to take/carry”), hisz (“to believe”), eszik (“to eat”), iszik (“to drink”), alszik (“to sleep”), fekszik (“to lie/recline”), nyugszik (“to rest/repose”)”

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