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cet

cet

See also: CET and cét

French

Determiner

cet

  1. this
    • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Or, il faut savoir que cet hidalgo, dans les moments où il restait oisif, c’est-à-dire à peu près toute l’année, s’adonnait à lire des livres de chevalerie....
      Yet, it must be known that this hidalgo, in the moments where he remained idle, that is to say just about the whole year, devoted himself to reading books of chivalry....

Usage notes

  • used before a masculine noun starting with a vowel or a mute h

Synonyms

  • ce (used before a masculine noun not starting with a vowel)

Anagrams


Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin cētus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɛt]

Noun

cet (plural cetek)

  1. whale

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative cet cetek
accusative cetet ceteket
dative cetnek ceteknek
instrumental cettel cetekkel
causal-final cetért cetekért
translative cetté cetekké
terminative cetig cetekig
essive-formal cetként cetekként
essive-modal
inessive cetben cetekben
superessive ceten ceteken
adessive cetnél ceteknél
illative cetbe cetekbe
sublative cetre cetekre
allative cethez cetekhez
elative cetből cetekből
delative cetről cetekről
ablative cettől cetektől
Possessive forms of cet
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. cetem cetjeim
2nd person sing. ceted cetjeid
3rd person sing. cetje cetjei
1st person plural cetünk cetjeink
2nd person plural cetetek cetjeitek
3rd person plural cetjük cetjeik

See also


Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin licet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲed/

Adjective

cet

  1. permissible

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

cet ?

  1. permission

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cet chet cet
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • 1 cet” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.