| From: | Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 25, 2004, 13:51 |
>> This site contains a rather lengthy description of Hungarian verbs: >> >> http://www.ultrasw.com/pawlowski/brendan/Hungarian%20Verbs.html >> > >Glad I looked at the response before I started to write...I browsed through the text and couldn't find a reference to the 1st-to-2nd-person suffix -lek/-lak (as in _szeretlek_ 'I love you'). This bipersonal suffix strikes me as very odd since it doesn't seem to fit anywhere in the schemes of the Hungarian conjugation. Where did it come from? Are there other similar bipersonal suffixes in Hungarian? Cheers, Javier