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lehet
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Hungarian
Etymology
From the shared le- stem of van (“to be”) and lesz (“to become; will be”) + -het (potential suffix added to verbs).
Pronunciation
Verb
lehet
- potential form of van, may/might be
- Este 8-kor már otthon lehet. ― S/he may be already at home at 8 p.m.
- potential form of lesz, may/might become
- Akár miniszterelnök is lehet belőle! ― S/he might even become Prime Minister! (literally, “Even a Prime Minister might become out of him/her!”)
Conjugation
conjugation of the potential form lehet
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions
Related terms
- ellehet
- kilehet
- meglehet
- odalehet
Further reading
- lehet in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Pass Valley Yali
Noun
lehet
References
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 18
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