perce

See also: Perce, percé, and Percé

English

Verb

perce (third-person singular simple present perces, present participle percing, simple past and past participle perced)

1. Obsolete form of pierce.

Anagrams

• CREEP, creep, crepe, crêpe

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

perce

1. inflection of percer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• crêpe

Hungarian

Etymology

perc +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛrt͡sɛ]
• Hyphenation: per‧ce

Noun

perce

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of perc

   Coordinate terms: ideje, másodperce, órája, napja, hete, hónapja, éve, évtizede, évszázada, évezrede

Usage notes

The above possessive forms of time units often express the time past: with a durative verb (often in the present-tense), an action or event that has (had, will have) been going on for a given time until the given moment, or with an instantaneous verb (in the past tense), an action or event that happened a certain time ago or before. For example:

Fél órája várom a vonatot. ― I have been waiting for the train for half an hour.

Fél órája vártam a vonatot. ― I had been waiting for the train for half an hour (or: I waited, I was waiting for the train half an hour ago).

Fél órája (= fél órával ezelőtt) érkeztem meg. ― I arrived half an hour ago.

Fél órája (= fél órával előtte/​korábban/​azelőtt) érkeztem meg. ― I (had) arrived half an hour before.

Of course, the usual possessive sense is also possible in different types of sentences:

Fél órája volt még a vizsgáig. ― He had half an hour left until the exam.

(The equivalent French phrase il y a is also constructed with an apparent possessive, although this Hungarian possessive can also correspond to depuis.) See also the entries of the possessive suffixes: -a/-e/-ja/-je for more examples.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	perce	—
accusative	percét	—
dative	percének	—
instrumental	percével	—
causal-final	percéért	—
translative	percévé	—
terminative	percéig	—
essive-formal	perceként	—
essive-modal	percéül	—
inessive	percében	—
superessive	percén	—
adessive	percénél	—
illative	percébe	—
sublative	percére	—
allative	percéhez	—
elative	percéből	—
delative	percéről	—
ablative	percétől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	percéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	percééi	—

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French percier. More at English pierce.

Verb

perce (third-person singular simple present perceth, present participle percende, percynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle perced)

1. pierce
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 1-2.

     Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
     The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

     When April with its sweet showers
     Has pierced the drought of March to the root

Descendants

• English: pierce