Vethetnek

Vethetnek is a Hungarian verb form used to express possibility or permission for an action carried out by a plural subject. It is the third-person plural form of the verb vetni in the potential mood, a mood that indicates something could or may happen rather than is certain. The potential mood in Hungarian is formed with the suffix -hat/-het on the verb stem, here combined with the plural personal ending to yield vethetnek. The base sense of vetni can be “to throw,” “to cast,” or in other contexts “to sow,” so vethetnek can carry those semantic nuances when the sentence refers to such actions.

In usage, vethetnek appears in more formal or hypothetical contexts rather than in everyday factual statements. It signals that the action is not definite and depends on circumstances. It can express possibility, or, in some constructions, permission or conditional feasibility.

A general example is Valamit vethetnek, meaning “They may throw something.” The exact interpretation—whether they could throw something, or they are allowed to throw something—depends on the surrounding context and on what verb sense of vetni is intended.

Related forms and alternatives include other persons and numbers of the potential mood, as well as simpler modal expressions like lehet, which conveys possibility in an impersonal or more general way. Vethetnek thus serves as a precise way to acknowledge uncertainty about an action performed by a plural subject in Hungarian.