szed

Széd is a Hungarian verb form, specifically the third-person singular present tense of the verb szedni. The root szedni covers meanings such as to pick, to gather, to harvest, and more broadly to collect. In everyday use, szed can refer to picking fruit from a plant, harvesting crops, or gathering items from a location. It can also describe the act of collecting money or taxes, where the sense shifts to a more figurative or administrative meaning.

In usage, szed is transitive and typically takes a direct object. Examples include picking fruit: "Ő szedi a gyümölcsöt a fáról" (He picks the fruit from the tree). For the sense of collecting money, one may encounter "adót szed," as in "Az adóhatóság adót szed" (The tax authority collects taxes). The verb forms vary with subject and tense; present forms include szedem, szeded, szedi, szedjük, szeditek, szedik, while past and other tenses are formed regularly as szedtem, szedtél, szedett, etc.

Phonology-wise, szed is pronounced with a short e vowel [sɛd], with sz representing the voiceless alveolar s sound in Hungarian. The word is common in standard Hungarian and appears in a wide range of contexts from agriculture and markets to public administration and law enforcement of taxes and fees.

Related terms include the infinitive szedni (to pick/collect) and various compound forms like szedd össze (gather up) or be-szedni (to collect in a container). Szed serves as a versatile root in Hungarian for acts of gathering, collecting, or extracting items or value.