Megmért

Megmért is a term used primarily in linguistic teaching materials to illustrate the formation of Hungarian verb forms with the perfective prefix meg-. It is not attested as a standard lexical item in contemporary Hungarian and is treated as a constructed or hypothetical form derived from the infinitive mérni, meaning to measure. In analytic descriptions of Hungarian verbal morphology, meg- marks completion of an action, and the suffix -t (in some accounts) signals a past participle, yielding the hypothetical megmért as a past-participle form meaning “measured.” The term is used to show how prefixation and participle formation can interact with the stem mérni in past-tensed contexts.

Because megmért is not common in everyday usage, it does not appear in standard dictionaries and is largely confined to linguistics textbooks, grammar drills, and online resources intended for learners. In practice, native speakers would typically use other, attested forms to express completed measurement, such as the simple past or compound tense forms of mérni. The concept of megmért thus serves as a didactic example rather than a lexical entry, illustrating how Hungarian morphology can, in theory, combine prefixation with participle formation to convey aspect and tense.

See also: Hungarian verb conjugation, prefix meg-, past participles in Hungarian, language pedagogy.