Idézve

Idezve is a Hungarian verbal participle formed from the verb idézni, meaning to quote or cite. It conveys the sense of “having quoted” or “quoted” and is used mainly in written, formal Hungarian to indicate that the following material is a quotation from another source. The form is created with the suffix -va/-ve attached to the verb stem (idéz- + -ve).

As a non-finite participle, idézve can function both as a modifier and as part of a participial construction. It can appear at the start of a clause to introduce a quotation, often set off by punctuation, for example in the pattern Idézve: …, or inside a sentence to attribute words to a source without repeating the author’s name. Compared with the finite past tense form idézett (he quoted), idézve is invariable with respect to person and number and does not conjugate like a finite verb.

In practice, idézve is most common in scholarly, bibliographic, or editorial prose, where it helps attribute content to its source without explicit repetition of the verb or the author. It is less common in everyday spoken language, where quotations are more frequently introduced with verbs such as mondta or said outright through quotation marks.

See also: idézet (quotation), idézőjel (quotation mark), idéző (quoting). The term is closely related to other participial forms derived from idézni used to handle quotation-related constructions in Hungarian.