lemegy
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]le- (“downward; completion”) + megy (“to go”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]lemegy
- (intransitive) to go down (to move from a higher place to a lower one)
- (intransitive) to decrease (to lessen in value)
- (intransitive) to go off (of an event, to take place and come to an end)
- (intransitive) to set, to go down (of a celestial body, to disappear below the horizon)
- Télen korán lemegy a nap. ― The sun sets early in the winter.
- 2021, Zoltán Danyi, A rózsákról, Budapest: Magvető, →ISBN, page 7:
- Az ablaknál álltam, és vártam, hogy lemenjen a nap, mert ez volt a szabály, és ha nem akartam, hogy bajok legyenek, akkor meg kellett várnom, hogy lemenjen.
- I stood by the window and waited for the sun to go down because that was the rule, and if I didn't want any trouble, I had to wait for it to go down.
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of lemegy
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | lemegyek | lemész | lemegy | lemegyünk | lementek | lemennek | |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Past | Indef. | lementem | lementél | lement | lementünk | lementetek | lementek | ||
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Future | Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. le fog menni. | ||||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | lemenék | lemenél | lemene | lemenénk | lemenétek | lemenének | ||
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. lemegy vala, lement vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | lemenendek | lemenendesz | lemenend | lemenendünk | lemenendetek | lemenendenek | ||
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | lemennék | lemennél | lemenne | lemennénk | lemennétek | lemennének | |
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. lement volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | lemenjek | lemenj or lemenjél |
lemenjen | lemenjünk | lemenjetek | lemenjenek | |
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. lement légyen | ||||||||
Infinitive | lemenni | lemennem | lemenned | lemennie | lemennünk | lemennetek | lemenniük | ||
Other forms |
Verbal noun | Present part. | Past part. | Future part. | Adverbial participle | Causative | |||
lemenés | lemenő | lement | lemenendő | lemenve (lemenvén) | |||||
The prefix can split from the verb stem, e.g. nem megy le or le is megy. |
potential conjugation of lemegy
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | lemehetek | lemehetsz | lemehet | lemehetünk | lemehettek | lemehetnek | |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Past | Indef. | lemehettem | lemehettél | lemehetett | lemehettünk | lemehettetek | lemehettek | ||
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | lemeheték | lemehetél | lemehete | lemeheténk | lemehetétek | lemehetének | ||
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala, e.g. lemehet vala, lemehetett vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | lemehetendek or lemenendhetek |
lemehetendesz or lemenendhetsz |
lemehetend or lemenendhet |
lemehetendünk or lemenendhetünk |
lemehetendetek or lemenendhettek |
lemehetendenek or lemenendhetnek | ||
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | lemehetnék | lemehetnél | lemehetne | lemehetnénk | lemehetnétek | lemehetnének | |
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. lemehetett volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | lemehessek | lemehess or lemehessél |
lemehessen | lemehessünk | lemehessetek | lemehessenek | |
Def. | ― | ||||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | ||||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. lemehetett légyen | ||||||||
Inf. | (lemehetni) | (lemehetnem) | (lemehetned) | (lemehetnie) | (lemehetnünk) | (lemehetnetek) | (lemehetniük) | ||
Positive adjective | ― | Neg. adj. | ― | Adv. part. | (lemehetve / lemehetvén) | ||||
The prefix can split from the verb stem, e.g. nem mehet le or le is mehet. |
Further reading
[edit]- lemegy 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