-te

-te

1. (auxiliary) Used to express negative tense in the determinate; never

From Middle Dutch -ede, from Old Dutch -itha, from Proto-West Germanic *-iþu, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.

Middle Dutch -ede was shortened to -de in late Middle Dutch, and the suffix was devoiced to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) according to the 't kofschip rule. This voiceless variety was then taken to be the suffix proper and the voiced variety gradually fell out of use.

-te f (plural -ten or -tes)

1. appended to an adjective, making a feminine noun which refers to the size or quality referred to by the adjective, cognate to -th.

   ‎hoog + ‎-te → ‎hoogte

   ‎ruim + ‎-te → ‎ruimte

   ‎breed + ‎-te → ‎breedte

   ‎lang + ‎-te → ‎lengte

   ‎gewoon + ‎-te → ‎gewoonte

2. appended to the stem of a verb, yields a feminine noun which refers to the object of such a verb.

   ‎behoeven + ‎-te → ‎behoefte

   ‎beloven + ‎-te → ‎belofte

-te

1. See ge- -te.

Cognate with English -ed; derives from a Germanic verb form of to do.

-te

1. a suffix that forms the singular of the past tense of weak verbs, the root of which ends in a voiceless consonant

   Synonym: -de

   ‎maken + ‎-te → ‎maakte

• IPA^(key): /tə/

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), -ete, from a merger of several Old High German conjugations.

• -ete (used with most stems in -d, -t, and consonant + -n, -m)

-te

1. forms the first-person and third-person singular of the past tense and past subjunctive of weak verbs and some irregular verbs

   ‎reisen (“to travel”) + ‎-te → ‎reiste (“[I] travelled; [he] travelled”)

From Middle Low German and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Germanic *-iþō, whence also inherited but equally rare German -de.

-te f (plural -ten)

1. (rare, not productive, only as synchronic surface analysis) forms nouns from adjectives

   ‎flau (“slack, windless”) + ‎-te → ‎Flaute (“slackness, stagnation”)

   ‎halb (“half”) + ‎-te → ‎Hälfte (“half, fifty percent”)

   ‎raum (“wide, open”) + ‎-te → ‎Räumte (“cargo capacity of a ship”)

• IPA^(key): [tɛ]

-te

1. 1. (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular indicative past definite form of verbs.

      ‎keres (“to search”) + ‎-te → ‎kereste (“he/she (has/had) searched”)

   2. (verbal-participle suffix) Forms the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun.

      ‎nevel (“to bring up, to raise”) + ‎-te → ‎[az anyja] nevelte [gyermek] (“[the child] raised by [his/her mother]”, literally “his/her-mother-raised child”)

2. (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -és), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-e), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.

   ‎érkezik (“to arrive”) + ‎-te → ‎érkezte (“his/her/its arrival”)

• (past-tense and verbal-participle suffix) Variants:

  -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs

  -te is added to most front-vowel verbs

  -tta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, rí, szí; ó, ró; fú)

  -tte is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (lő, nő, sző; nyű)

  -otta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, nyit, except lát)

  -ette is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)

  -ötte is added to rounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (köt, süt, üt)

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs

  -te is added to most front-vowel verbs

  -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally jő)

  -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)

  -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)

• Category:Hungarian verbal participles
• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• Károly, Sándor. Az istenadta-féle szerkezetek személyragos tagjának szófaji jellegéről (“On the part of speech of the personal-suffixed elements of istenadta [‘God-given’]-like structures”). In: Nyelvtudományi Közlemények (“Linguistic Publications”), vol. 59 (1957), pp. 130–150.
• Simonyi, Zsigmond. Isten-adta (“God-given”). In: Magyar Nyelvőr (“Hungarian Language Guardian”), vol. XXXVI (1907), pp. 16–35 in the offprint (issue 5, May 15 in the original, pp. 193–205, 264–271).

-te

1. slender form of -ta (plural suffix)
2. slender form of -ta (past participle suffix)

-te

1. masculine vocative singular of -tus

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), -tet, from Latin -tās, -tātem; compare -ite.

• -tee, -tei, -tey, -tie, -ty, -tye
• (from early Old French -tet) -tet, -teth, -tethe, -teþ, -tith, -tithe

• IPA^(key): /-ˈteː/, /-teː/

-te

1. Forms abstract nouns from adjectives.

   Synonym: -ite

• Syncope sometimes results in the replacement of -ite with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). For instance, trinte is sometimes found for trinite (“Trinity”).
• Conversely, learned influence may sometimes result in Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) with -ite, especially when the word goes back to a Latin original with -itās. This is exemplified by the replacement of personalte (“personality”) with personalite in later Middle English (compare Latin persōnālitās).
• As in modern English, -ite tends to attract stress to the antepenultimate syllable, while Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) leaves stress where it was on the root.

• English: -ty
• Scots: -ty

• “-tẹ̄, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

-te

1. (following fricatives) Alternative form of -th (abstract nominal suffix)

-te

1. (following fricatives) Alternative form of -the (abstract nominal suffix)

-te

1. (following fricatives) Alternative form of -the (ordinal suffix)

-te

1. Alternative form of -ty

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), -ithe, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.

-te f

1. Forms abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, or other nouns; -th

• -da, -de, -ta

From Old Irish -de.

-te

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.

   'S crìochnaichte an sgeul. ― The story is finished.

   ‎beum (“stress”) + ‎-te → ‎beumte (“stressed”)

   ‎blas (“taste”) + ‎-te → ‎blasta (“tasty”)

   ‎drabas (“filthiness of speech, smut”) + ‎-te → ‎drabasda (“obscene, ribald, smutty, dirty, indelicate”)

• -de

-te

1. Alternative form of -de; suffix to create preterite tense of verbs if the stem ends in a unvoiced consonant (this form of the suffix is only applicable to verbs which end in -er in the present tense)

• -et

-te

1. Alternative form of -da (locative suffix) (after a front vowel followed by an unvoiced consonant)