-etlen

== Hungarian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɛtlɛn] Hyphenation: et‧len Rhymes: -ɛn === Suffix === -etlen (comparative -etlenebb, superlative leg- -etlenebb) (adjective-forming suffix) -less, un-, dis- (a privative suffix added to a noun or a verb to form adjectives with a meaning of lacking something) ‎fej (“head”) + ‎-etlen → ‎fejetlen (“headless; confused”) ‎ismer (“to know”) + ‎-etlen → ‎ismeretlen (“unknown”) ==== Usage notes ==== (adjective-forming suffix) Variants: -talan is added to back-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) -telen is added to front-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) -tlan is added to back-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. -tlen is added to front-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) ending in a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-. -atlan is added to back-vowel verbs and nouns (occasionally adjectives) -etlen is added to front-vowel verbs and nouns (occasionally adjectives) Using two different suffix variants with the same stem may result in different meanings: gond (“care”) → gondtalan (“carefree”) gond (“care”) → gondatlan (“careless”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === Appendix:Hungarian suffixes