# -et
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English -et, from Old French -et.

### Suffix

-et
* Used to form diminutives, loosely construed.

#### Related terms

* -ette

### See also

* -ett
* -ette
* -let

### Anagrams

* TE, te

## Albanian
### Suffix

-et n
* Forms active verbs into mediopassive verbs. Indicating 3rd person singular, indicative, present: it is; (it) -s; (it) is -ing/-n/-ed/-t
    active verbs ending with consonant:
       ‎merr (“it takes”) + ‎-et → ‎merret (“it is taken”)
          merret(it) is taken
    active verbs ending with vowels (adding -h in between to avoid palatalisation):
       ‎lë (“it lets, leaves”) + ‎-h + ‎-et → ‎lihet (“it is left”)
          lihet vetëmit is left alone

### See also

* (indicative present (passive))
** -em, -hem
** -esh, -hesh
** -het
** -emi, -hemi
** -eni, -heni
** -en, -hen
* (indicative present (active))
** -oj, -j
** -on, -n
** -ojmë, -jmë, -më
** -oni, -ni
** -ojnë, -jnë, -në

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin -ittus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈɛt]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈət]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈet]

### Suffix

-et m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ets)
* forms diminutives or endearing variants of nouns
    ‎llaç (“knot, loop”) + ‎-et → ‎llacet (diminutive)
    ‎formatge (“cheese”) + ‎-et → ‎formatget (diminutive)
    ‎rei (“king”) + ‎-et → ‎reiet (diminutive)
    ‎roda (“wheel”) + ‎-et → ‎rodet (“reel, spool”)

### Suffix

-et (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -eta, masculine plural -ets, feminine plural -etes)
* forms diminutives or endearing variants of adjectives
    ‎poc (“little”) + ‎-et → ‎poquet (“very little”)

### Derived terms
## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əð/, [ð̩], [ð̩˕˗ˠ]

### Suffix

-et
* Forms past participles of some verbs, like -t.
* Forms the definite singular of most neuter nouns.
* Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "like [noun]"; -esque.
    ‎snerpe (“prude”) + ‎-et → ‎snerpet (“prudish”)
* Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "having [noun], being equipped with [noun]".
    ‎mønster (“pattern”) + ‎-et → ‎mønstret (“patterned”)
    ‎to (“two”) + ‎sprog (“language”) + ‎-et → ‎tosproget (“bilingual”)

#### Derived terms
## Emilian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /et/

### Pronoun

-et (personal)
* (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of et
* (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of te

#### Related terms

| Number | Person | Gender | Proclitic | Proclitic | Proclitic | Proclitic | Enclitic | Enclitic | Enclitic | Enclitic | Aphetic | Aphetic | Aphetic | Aphetic |
| Number | Person | Gender | N | A | D | R | N | A | D | R | N | A | D | R |
| Singular | First | — | aj- | m’ | m’ | m’ | -ja | -em | -em | -em | -ja | -m | -m | -m |
| Singular | Second | — | t- | t’ | t’ | t’ | -et | -et | -et | -et | -t | -t | -t | -t |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | l- | l- | g’ | s’ | -el | -el | -eg | -es | -l | -l | -g | -s |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | l’ | l’ | g’ | s’ | -la | -la | -eg | -es | -la | -la | | -g | -s |
| Plural | First | — | aj- | s’ | s’ | s’ | -ja | -es | -es | -es | -ja | -s | -s | -s |
| Plural | Second | — | aj- | v’ | v’ | v’ | -ev | -ev | -ev | -ev | -v | -v | -v | -v |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | j- | j- | g’ | s’ | -i | -i | -eg | -es | -j | -j | -g | -s |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | elj- | elj- | g’ | s’ | -li | -li | -eg | -es | -li | -li | | -g | -s |

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French -et, from Old French -et, from Late Latin -ittus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Suffix

-et m (feminine -ette)
* suffix indicating diminution or affection

#### Descendants

* →? Galician: -ete, -eta
* → Spanish: -ete

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɛt]
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Etymology 1

From -e- +‎ -t (causative suffix).

#### Suffix

-et
* (causative suffix) Added to a verb (or extremely rarely to a noun) to form a verb with a meaning of letting, making somebody do something or having something done to someone or something.
    Synonyms: -tat/-tet, -aszt/-eszt/-öszt, -jt/-ajt/-ejt, -ít, -dít, (obsolete in this sense) -t
    ‎néz (“to look”) + ‎-et → ‎nézet (“to have something (like a body part) looked at (by a doctor) or (less commonly) to make someone look at something”)
    ‎ég (“to burn”) (intransitive) + ‎-et → ‎éget (“to make something burn or (less commonly) to have someone burn something”)
    ‎mér (“to measure”) + ‎-et → ‎méret (“to make someone measure something or to have something measured”)

##### Usage notes

* (causative suffix) Variants:
    -at is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words
       ‎vár (“to wait”) + ‎-at → ‎várat (“to have someone wait”)
    -et is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words
       ‎kér (“to ask for”) + ‎-et → ‎kéret (“to have someone ask(ed) for; to summon someone [by ordering a servant to fetch him/her]”)
    -tat is added to back-vowel words ending in a vowel + t
       ‎tisztít (“to clean”) + ‎-tat → ‎tisztíttat (“to have someone clean or to have something cleaned”)
    -tet is added to front-vowel words ending in a vowel + t
       ‎keres (“to look for”) + ‎-tet → ‎kerestet (“to have someone look(ed) for”)

##### Derived terms
#### Further reading

* Műveltető (faktitív) “Factitive” in Kiefer, Ferenc (ed.). Strukturális magyar nyelvtan 3. Morfológia (“A structural grammar of Hungarian, Vol. 3. Morphology”), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000.

### Etymology 2

From -e- +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix).

#### Suffix

-et (noun-forming suffix)
* Added to a verb to form a noun, expressing the result of the action or sometimes a more abstract relation (compare -ás/-és).
    Synonym: -mány/-mény

##### Usage notes

* (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
    -at is added to back-vowel verbs
       ‎gondol (“to think”) + ‎-at → ‎gondolat (“a thought, an idea”)
       ‎mond (“to say”) + ‎-at → ‎mondat (“sentence”)
    -et is added to front-vowel verbs
       ‎dicsér (“to praise”) + ‎-et → ‎dicséret (“praise, commendation”)
       ‎él (“to live”) + ‎-et → ‎élet (“life”)
       ‎ítél (“to judge”) + ‎-et → ‎ítélet (“judgment”)
       ‎mér (“to measure”) + ‎-et → ‎méret (“measurement, size”)

##### Derived terms
### Etymology 3

From -e- (linking vowel) +‎ -t (accusative suffix).

#### Suffix

-et (accusative case suffix)
* Unrounded front-vowel variant of -t. See details there.
    ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-et → ‎kertet (“garden”)
    Láttam egy gyönyörű kertet. ― I saw a beautiful garden.

##### Usage notes

* (accusative case suffix): It can be added to nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns. Whether a suffix-initial vowel (linking vowel) will be used is hard to predict and thus needs to be learned with each word. A rule of thumb, however, is that older and shorter words tend to incorporate a vowel, rather than simply use -t. Variants:
    -t is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-. Final -o in foreign words changes to -ó-.
    -ot is added to most back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -at is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -et is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -öt is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
    -∅ (zero form), optionally, after possessive suffixes, especially in the singular but sometimes also in the plural (and not infrequently after multiple-possession forms as well), except for the third-person singular (“his/her/its”, -ja/-je) as its omission would not reduce the number of syllables.
       Elviszem a kabátom(at/∅), kabátod(at/∅); kabátunk(at/∅), kabátotok(at/∅), kabátjuk(at/∅); kabátjaim(at/∅) etc.I’ll take my coat, your coat; our coat, [plural] your coat, their coat; my coats etc.
    It is also omitted usually from the accusative forms of first- and second-person singular personal pronouns (engem, téged (“me, you”)).
$^1$ Stem-final -a/-e changes to -á-/-é-, respectively, except before -ként. alma — almában, but almaként zene ― zenében, but zeneként

#### See also

$^1$Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns /

### Etymology 4

From -etik (passive-forming suffix), removing the ending.

#### Suffix

-et
* Combining form of -etik (passive-forming suffix) before all inflectional and derivational suffixes, except the dictionary form itself, the indefinite third-person singular present indicative
    küldetik (“to be sent”) → küldetés (“mission”).

##### Usage notes

(combining forms of the passive-forming suffix) Variants: -at-, -et-, -tat-, -tet- (from -atik, -etik, -tatik, -tetik), as well as the tautological (doubly suffixed) forms -attat-, -ettet- (from -attatik, -ettetik). See more in the template of the full forms of this suffix.

#### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* -ꝫ (abbreviation, Medieval Latin)
* -& (abbreviation, Medieval Latin, uncommon)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈet/, [ˈɛt̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈet/, [ˈɛt̪]
* Homophone: et

### Suffix

-et
* third-person singular present active subjunctive of -ō (first conjugation)

## Middle English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French -et, and its feminine variant -ette, from Late Latin -ittus (and the other gender forms -itta, -ittum).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /it/, /ɛt/

### Suffix

-et
* Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words, it has lost its original meaning.

#### Descendants

* English: -et

### References

* “-et, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-04.

## Middle French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French -et.

### Suffix

-et
* Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.

#### Descendants

* French: -et

## Northern Sami
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Samic *-ëjëtēk.

### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈ-eh(t)/

### Suffix

-et
* Forms momentane verbs.
    ‎njuikut (“to jump around”) + ‎-et → ‎njuiket (“to jump once”)

#### Usage notes

* This suffix triggers the strongest grade on a preceding stressed syllable.

#### Derived terms
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse -it.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ə/
* Reduced final -e is lost before the suffix; both forms are then pronounced the same (e.g., hode and hodet).

#### Suffix

-et
* Forms the definite singular of neuter nouns.

##### Related terms

* det (article, pronoun; t also silent)
* -t (adjective suffix; t pronounced)

### Etymology 2

Derived from Danish -et (past participle suffix), generalised to the past tense (Danish -ede) through influence of native Norwegian dialects.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ət/

#### Suffix

-et
* Forms the past tense and past participle of class-1 weak verbs.
    Synonym: -a

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse -óttr.

### Noun

-et (definite singular and plural -ete)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of -ete

#### Derived terms
### Anagrams

* et, te

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* -ett, -ot, -ut, -yt

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *-atti, *-itti, *-utti, from Proto-Germanic *-atją, *-itją, *-utją.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /et/

### Suffix

-et n
* suffix forming nouns from verbs, adjectives, and other nouns (sometimes causes i-mutation)
    þēowot ― service, religious service, ministry
    grafet ― trench
    bærnet ― a burning, combustion, cauterizing
    emnet ― level ground, leveling
    þiccet ― thicket
    rēwet ― rowing; ship, row-boat
    rȳmet ― space, clearance, extension
    swefet, sweofot ― sleep; sleeping
    þyrnet ― thicket of thorns, thorny place

#### Usage notes

* -ot was originally used with class 2 weak verbs in -ian ← *-ojan (from Proto-Germanic *-ōną). Confer usages for -od, -ung, -oþ, -ol, -or.

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* English: thicket

## Old French
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin -ittus.

#### Suffix

-et
* Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.

##### Descendants

* Middle French: -et
** French: -et

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin -ātus.

#### Suffix

-et
* (12th century and before) Alternative form of -é (suffix used to form past participles of regular -er verbs)

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin -ētum. Cognate with Italian -eto, French -aie.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈet/

#### Suffix

-et n (plural -eturi or -ete)
* Used with plant or tree names to form names of orchards, woods, forests, or groves.
    brad (“fir tree”) → brădet (“fir-tree forest”)
    ulm (“elm”) → ulmet (“elm forest”)
    fag (“beech”) → făget (“beech forest”)

##### Derived terms
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin -itus. No longer productive.

#### Alternative forms

* -ăt

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /et/ (stressed on the antepenultimate)

#### Suffix

-et n (plural -ete)
* (unproductive) Used to form nouns derived from the action of some verbs.
    zâmbi (“to smile”) → zâmbet (“a smile”)
    zbiera (“to scream”) → zbieret (“a scream”)

##### Derived terms
## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛt/

### Suffix

-et
* Suffix for definite form singular of neuter nouns, especially if they end with consonant or a stressed vowel.
* Suffix for the neuter form of past participles of verbs belonging to the fourth declension (strong verbs). This may be analyzed as two morphemes: a combination of the suffix -en for past participle and -t for neuter, where the n of the first suffix disappears. Such an analysis is historically correct.

#### Synonyms

* (nonstandard; slang) 1

### Anagrams

* -te, te

## Volapük
### Suffix

-et
* Used to indicate a consequential or concrete example.

#### Derived terms
## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* -set

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ɛt/
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /at/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ɛt/

### Suffix

-et
* (colloquial) verb suffix for the second-person singular conditional