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-het

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See also: het, hét, hèt, hết, and нет

Albanian

Etymology

3rd pers. sg. passive marker; -h (added when verb ends with a vowel; to avoid palatalisation) + et. See Albanian -et for more.

Suffix

-het n

Forms active verbs into mediopassive verbs. Indicating 3rd person singular, indicative, present: it is; (it) -s; (it) is -ing/-n/-ed/-t
attached on active verbs ending with vowels (adding -h to avoid palatalisation):
lë (“it lets, leaves”) + -het → lihet (it is left)
lihet vetëm
it is left alone

See also

(indicative present (passive))
- -em, -hem
- -esh, -hesh
- -et
- -emi, -hemi
- -eni, -heni
- -en, -hen
-net — dialectal, Tosk

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hɛt]

Suffix

-het

(potential suffix, added to verbs):
‎felejt (“to forget”) + ‎-het → ‎felejthet (“may forget, can forget”)
1. (expressing possibility) may (having the potential to do or be something)
  A hosszan magára hagyott kutya ugathat, nyüszíthet, bepisilhet vagy rombolhat. ― A dog left alone for a long time may bark, whimper, wet itself, or destroy things.
  
  Synonym: lehet/meglehet/előfordulhat/megtörténhet/megeshet, hogy…
2. (expressing permission) may, can, being permitted, allowed, or enabled to
  Ebbe a házba bemehet a kutya. ― The dog is allowed to enter this house.
  
  Ezt én nem írhatom alá helyetted. ― I cannot (= am not allowed to) sign it instead of you.
  
  Synonym: (with the logical subject in the dative) szabad
3. (expressing opportunity) can
  Ennél a forrásnál ihatunk vizet és meguzsonnázhatunk. ― At this spring we can drink water and have a snack.
  
  Synonym: (the argument supplied with -ra/-re or in the infinitive) módja/lehetősége van

Usage notes

(potential suffix) Variants:
-hat is added to back-vowel verbs

-het is added to front-vowel verbs
To express can in the sense “to be able to”, see tud.

Derived terms

Hungarian verbs suffixed with -het

megkülönböztethet

megszentségteleníthet

See also

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German -hēt, -heit, from Old Saxon -hēd, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“manner, way; state”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keyt-, *(s)keydʰ- (“clear, bright, shining”).

Cognate with Danish -hed, Swedish -het, German -heit, Dutch -heid and English -hood.

Suffix

-het m or f

Suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness -ity.
kjølig - kjølighet (cool - coolness)

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms suffixed with -het

arbeidsledighet

klassebevissthet

lobbyvirksomhet

lysømfintlighet

miljøvennlighet

tilgjengelighet

ugjennomsiktighet

underbevissthet

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