-tta

From Proto-Finnic *-kta.

-tta (front vowel harmony variant -ttä)

1. Suffix for the abessive case, without.

• (without): (preposition) ilman (+ partitive), (preposition/postposition) vailla (+ partitive)

• Suffixed to the genitive stem in the singular, to the same stem as the inessive in the plural.
• Not very commonly used, especially the singular forms.

Derived from the assimilated final consonant of the stem, *k or *h, plus the partitive suffix -ta.

-tta (front vowel harmony variant -ttä)

1. A suffix for the partitive singular.

• Used predominantly for words whose nominative singular ends in -e and which lengthen that final -e in other singular cases, as well as for ordinal numerals starting from kolmas. Traditionally also for ori.

• IPA^(key): [tːɒ]

-tta

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

   ró (“to carve”) → rótta (“he/she (has/had) carved”)

• (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