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percen

percen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛrt͡sɛn]
  • Hyphenation: per‧cen

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic (sound imitative) stem + -en (instantaneous suffix)

Verb

percen

  1. (intransitive, rare, of quill pen) to scrape, scratch (to make one small scraping sound)
  2. (intransitive, rare, of woodworm) to tick (to make one clicking sound)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

perc + -en

Noun

percen

  1. superessive singular of perc
    Öt percen belül ott leszek. ― I will be there in five minutes.

Middle English

Verb

percen (third-person singular simple present perceth, present participle percende, simple past and past participle perced)

  1. to pierce