-te

-te

1. (auxiliary) Used to express negative tense in the determinate; never

From Middle Dutch -ede, from Old Dutch -itha, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.

Middle Dutch -ede was shortened to -de in late Middle Dutch, and the suffix was devoiced to -te according to the 't kofschip rule. This voiceless variety was then taken to be the suffix proper and the voiced variety gradually fell out of use.

-te f (plural -ten or -tes)

1. appended to an adjective, making a feminine noun which refers to the size or quality referred to by the adjective, cognate to -th.

   hoog → hoogte

   ruim → ruimte

   breed → breedte

   lang → lengte

   gewoon → gewoonte

2. appended to the stem of a verb, yields a feminine noun which refers to the object of such a verb.

   behoeven → behoefte

   beloven → belofte

-te

1. See ge- -te.

Cognate with English -ed; derives from a Germanic verb form of to to do.

-te

1. a suffix that forms the singular of the past tense of weak verbs, the root of which ends in a voiceless consonant

   maken → maakte

• -de

• IPA^(key): /tə/

From Middle High German -te, -ete, from a merger of several Old High German conjugations.

• -ete (used with most stems in -d, -t, and consonant + -n, -m)

-te

1. forms the first-person and third-person singular of the past tense and past subjunctive of weak verbs and some irregular verbs

   ‎reisen (“to travel”) + ‎-te → ‎reiste (“[I] travelled; [he] travelled”)

From Middle Low German and Middle Dutch -te, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō, whence also inherited but equally rare German -de.

-te f (plural -ten)

1. (rare, not productive, only as synchronic surface analysis) forms nouns from adjectives

   ‎flau (“slack, windless”) + ‎-te → ‎Flaute (“slackness, stagnation”)

   ‎raum (“wide, open”) + ‎-te → ‎Räumte (“cargo capacity of a ship”)

• IPA^(key): [tɛ]

-te

1. (past tense suffix) Used to form the third-person singular past tense of verbs (definite conjugations).

   keres (“to search”) → kereste (“he/she (has/had) searched”)

• (past tense suffix) Variants:

  -ta is added to most back vowel verbs

  -te is added to most front vowel verbs

  -tta is added to back vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, fú, ó, ró, rí, szí)

  -tte is added to front vowel verbs ending in a vowel (lő, nyű, sző)

  -otta is added to back vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, nyit, except lát)

  -ette is added to unrounded front vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)

  -ötte is added to rounded front vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (köt, süt, üt)

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

-te

1. slender form of -ta (plural suffix)
2. slender form of -ta (past participle suffix)

-te

1. masculine vocative singular of -tus

From Old Frisian -te, -ithe, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.

-te f

1. Forms abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, or other nouns; -th

• -da
• -de
• -ta

From Old Irish -de.

-te

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.

   'S crìochnaichte an sgeul. ― The story is finished.

• -de

-te

1. Variant of -de; suffix to create preterite tense of verbs if the stem ends in a unvoiced consonant (this form of the suffix is only applicable to verbs which ends in -er in present tense)