-otta

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [otːɒ]

Suffix

-otta

2. (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular past tense of verbs (definite conjugation).

   ‎sóhajt (“to sigh”) + ‎-otta → ‎sóhajtotta (“he/she (has/had) sighed”)

   ‎javít (“to correct”) + ‎-otta → ‎javította (“he/she (has/had) corrected”)

   ‎nyit (“to open”) + ‎-otta → ‎nyitotta (“he/she (has/had) opened”)

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

   borít (“to cover”) → [hó] borította [táj] (“[landscape] covered by [snow]”, literally “snow-covered landscape”)

Usage notes

• (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)

See also

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Further reading

• 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).

Italian

Suffix

-otta f

1. feminine of -otto

Derived terms

Italian terms suffixed with -otta

Anagrams

• -atto, Atto, atto