-het

• -net — dialectal, Tosk

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

-het n

1. 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

• (indicative present (passive))
  • -em, -hem
  • -esh, -hesh
  • -et
  • -emi, -hemi
  • -eni, -heni
  • -en, -hen

• IPA^(key): [hɛt]

-het

1. (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

• (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.

• -hetetlen
• -hetnék

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
• Category:Hungarian auxiliary verbs

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.

-het m or f

1. Suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness -ity.

   kjølig - kjølighet (cool - coolness)

From Old Swedish -het, which is borrowed from Middle Low German -heit, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz. Cognate with Danish -hed, German -heit, Dutch -heid, English -hood.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˌheːt/, [ˌheə̯t]

-het c

1. Productive suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning; -ness, -ity

   nödvändig - nödvändighet (necessary - necessity)

• the