-ott

• IPA^(key): [otː]
• Rhymes: -otː

From -o- (linking vowel) +‎ -tt (past-participle and past-tense suffix).

-ott

2. past-tense and past-participle suffix (homonymous form in the vast majority of verbs):
   1. (past-tense suffix) -ed, -t (forms the past tense of a verb)

      mos (“to wash”) → Kezet mosott. ― S/he washed his/her hands.

   3. (past-participle suffix) -ed, -t (forms the past participle of a verb)

      mos (“to wash”) → a mosott ruhák ― the washed clothes

• (past-participle and past-tense suffix) Variants:

  -t is added to monosyllabic verbs ending in j, l, ly, n, ny, r (fáj, szel, fon, huny, sír) and to many bisyllabic verbs ending in -ad/-ed (akad, ered)

  -tt is added to verbs ending in a vowel (sző, nő, fő, lő, ró, rí)

  -ott is added to back-vowel verbs

  -ett is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs

  -ött is added to rounded front-vowel verbs

• (past-participle suffix) This form is the only option attributively. Predicatively, however, a construction of the existential verb van (or its negative form nincs) and the adverbial participle (with -va/-ve) is preferable,^[1] especially when speaking of the result achieved,^[2] although the suffix -t/-ott/-ett/-ött occurs predicatively as well, disputed as it may be.^[3]

For the past-participle suffix only:

From -o- (linking vowel) +‎ -tt (locative suffix).

-ott

2. (archaic, locative suffix) in (forms the locative case)

   Kaposvár (a Hungarian city) → Kaposvárott (“in Kaposvár”)

• (locative suffix) It is used only in a few city/town names along with the inessive case or superessive case.^[3] It can also be observed in a few local adverbs and postpositions. It is no longer productive. Variants:

  -t

  Kaposvárt, Kolozsvárt (also with -ott), közt, gyanánt, mint, képest

  -tt is added to words ending in a vowel

  itt, ott, hanyatt, alatt, miatt, előtt

  -ott is added to back-vowel words

  Kaposvárott (also with -t), Vácott, Székesfehérvárott, Fehérvárott, Kapuvárott, (outside present-day Hungary)
  Érsekújvárott, Gyulafehérvárott, Kolozsvárott (also with -t), Temesvárott, (in Russia) Szentpétervárott, Pétervárott

  -ett is added to unrounded front-vowel words

  Pécsett, felett, mellett, végett, helyett

  -ött is added to rounded front-vowel words

  Győrött, Diósgyőrött, fölött, mögött, között

  -utt is added to some back-vowel words

  másutt

  -ütt is added to some unrounded front-vowel words

  mindenütt, együtt, egyebütt, helyütt

• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Category:Hungarian past participles
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes