titeket

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the personal pronoun ti (“you”, plural) +‎ -tek (second-person plural possessive suffix) +‎ -et (accusative suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtitɛkɛt]
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Hyphenation: ti‧te‧ket
Rhymes: -ɛt

Pronoun

titeket

accusative of ti (“you, you all, you guys”) (as the direct object of a verb)
Synonyms: (slightly literary) benneteket, (folksy) tikteket

Meghívtak titeket. ― They invited you. (plural)

Coordinate terms

(singular): engem(et) (“me”) ― (informal) téged(et), (formal) magát, (official) önt (“you”) ― őt (“him/her”);
(plural): minket/bennünket (“us”) ― (infml) titeket/benneteket, (fml) magukat, (off.) önöket (“you all”) ― őket (“them”)

See also

Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

References

Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (’Explanatory Dictionary Plus’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN
Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library^db and other institutions), p. 214

Further reading

titeket in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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