Meglepdött

Meglepdött is not a standard Hungarian word. In contemporary Hungarian, there is no recognized lemma spelled meglepdött in authoritative dictionaries. It is commonly treated as a misspelling or nonstandard form that may appear in informal writing or among language learners.

The root of the related verbs is meglepni, meaning to surprise someone, and meglepődni, meaning to become surprised. The past tense forms diverge depending on whether the verb is transitive (surprise someone) or intransitive (become surprised). For the transitive meaning, the past tense is meglepett (he/she surprised someone). For the intransitive meaning, the past tense is meglepődött (he/she became surprised). The standard past forms are thus meglepett, meglepőt, meglepődött, rather than meglepdött.

Commonly confused spellings arise from the similarity of the stem meglep- and the suffixes used in past-tense forms. A learner encountering meglepdött is likely to be dealing with a typographical error or a nonstandard contraction rather than a separate lexical entry with its own meaning.

Correct usage guidance:

- To express “to surprise someone”: meglepni (infinitive) and past tense meglepte (or meglepett) him/her. Example: A hír meglepte őt.

- To express “to be surprised”: meglepődni (infinitive) and past tense meglepődött. Example: Ő meglepődött, amikor meghallotta a hírt.

See also: meglepődni, meglepni, meglepett, meglepődött.