-hetnék

Lexicalization of -het (potential suffix) +‎ -nék (first-person singular conditional suffix), literally: “I could” (do something), as an expression of impulse or desire.

• IPA^(key): [hɛtneːk]

-hetnék

1. (noun-forming suffix) Appended to a verb to express an impulse or desire.

   megy (“go, leave”) → mehetnékje van (“s/he feels like leaving”, “s/he has the urge to leave”)

   eszik (“eat”) → ehetnékünk volt (“we felt like eating”, “we wanted to eat”)

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -hatnék is added to back-vowel verbs.

  -hetnék is added to front-vowel verbs.

• It is usually followed by a possessive suffix (forms given below) and a third-person singular form of the existential verb van (van/volt/lesz/lenne/legyen etc.).
• Another construction is with a verb like elfog, rájön, rátör, or támad (here all mean “overcome”), e.g. elfogja a sírhatnék (“s/he is overcome by the urge to cry”, “s/he feels the need to cry”), rájött a nevethetnék (“s/he was overcome by the need to laugh”, “s/he felt compelled to laugh”), kosarazhatnékja támadt (“s/he felt the need to play basketball”).

or (less frequently)

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• Hatnékom van (the relevant part starts under the ping pong photo)