feltéve

Feltéve is a Hungarian adverbial expression most commonly used as a conditional connector, usually in the phrase "feltéve, hogy" (literally "being put/placed, that") and translated into English as "provided that", "assuming that" or "on the condition that". It introduces a subordinate clause that specifies a requirement or presupposition for the main clause.

Usage of feltéve is generally more formal or emphatic than the simple conjunction ha ("if"). It often appears in written texts, formal speech, legal or technical writing, and when the speaker wants to highlight the conditional nature or contingency of a statement. For example: "Feltéve, hogy eljönnek, elkezdjük a találkozót" — "Provided that they come, we will start the meeting."

Feltéve can stand alone as a reduced conditional in colloquial contexts, but it is most natural with the complementizer hogy. It may also be combined with negation or modal qualifiers to express nuanced conditions. Syntactically, the clause introduced by feltéve typically precedes the main clause but can follow it for stylistic variation.

Etymologically, the form relates to verbal participial constructions in Hungarian and conveys a presuppositional aspect. In meaning and function it is closely related to other conditional expressions such as amennyiben ("insofar as/if") but carries a slightly more formal or explicit conditional implication.